Time-limited Contracts

HC Deb 17 October 1994 vol 248 c61W

Mr. Spearing

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people in the United Kingdom were in(a) part-time and (b) full-time employment, (i) with or (ii) without time-limited contracts or the equivalent in the years (1) 1984 and (2) 1992.

Mr. Oppenheim

Information from the spring 1992 labour force survey is given in the following table. Comparable estimates for 1984 are not available.

Employees working full/part-time on fixed term contracts United Kingdom - spring 1992
	Full-time '000s	Part-time '000s	All employees1 '000s
On fixed contracts	383	198	581
Not on fixed contract	16,249	5,063	21,316
All employees	16,632	5,261	21,897
1Includes small number who did not state full or part-time

Source:

Labour Force Survey-not seasonally adjusted