Mr. Foulkesasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish figures for the number of part-time employees in Scotland by sex and sector, in each of the past five years.
§ Mr. Allan StewartI regret that the information is not available in the precise form requested. The latest complete figures for the period in question are derived from the census of employment of September 1981 and are shown in table 1. Estimates are available on a year by year basis for the total number of part-time female employees but not for part-time male employees. Table 2 gives the figures for the past five years.
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TABLE 1 Part-time Employees—Scotland September 1981 (By Standard Industrial Classification) Male Female I Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing 3,531 2,525 II Mining and Quarrying 33 344 Primary Industries (I and II) 3,564 2,869 III Food, Drink and Tobacco 1,250 6,539 IV Coal and Petroleum Products 3 44 V Chemicals and Allied Industries 95 765 VI Metal Manufacture 91 286 VII Mechanical Engineering 237 1,002 VIII Instrument Engineering 79 670 IX Electrical Engineering 209 1,465 X Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering 40 480 XI Vehicles 100 364 XII Metal Goods not elsewhere specified 172 862 XIII Textiles 984 3,395 XIV Leather, Leather Goods and Fur 32 127 XV Clothing and Footwear 80 1,215 XVI Bricks, Pottery, Glass, Cement, etc. 88 391 XVII Timber, Furniture, etc. 207 604 employees employed in (a) electronics, (b) biotechnology, (c) health care industries, (d) advanced engineering and 8e) energy-related industries sectors in Scotland.
§ Mr. Allan StewartThe available information is set out in the following table:
Male Female XVIII Paper, Printing and Publishing 431 1,993 XIX Other Manufacturing Industries 74 404 All Manufacturing Industries (III to XIX) 4,172 20,606 XX Construction 1,317 4,052 XXI Gas, Electricity and Water 26 1,021 XXII Transport and Communication 2,498 5,039 XXIII Distributive Trades 11,954 74,439 XXIV Insurance, Banking, Finance and 2,458 13,777 Business Services XXV Professional and Scientific Services 6,514 109,198 XXVI Miscellaneous Services 20,466 89,413 XXVII Public Administration and Defence 5,736 12,366 Total Services (Excluding Construction—XXI to XXVII) 49,652 305,223 Grand Total (I to XXVII) 58,705 332,750
TABLE 2 ESTIMATED NUMBERS OF PAST-TIME FEMALE EMPLOYEES NUMBERS June 1979 330,000 June 1980 332,000 June 1981 331,000 June 1982 327,000 June 1983 331,000