§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many disabled persons have registered for work in each of the past six months at the Ayr, Cum- 348W per cent (3.9 million) male employees and 33 per cent. (2.8 million) female employees were not covered by arrangements for pay from their employers when sick. They were nearly all in the private sector. The estimates include part-time employees and juveniles. The corresponding figures for full-time employees are 26 per cent. (3.2 million) for men aged 21 and over and 27 per cent. (1.5 million) for women aged 18 and over.
§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many employees are not covered by employers' schemes which guarantee payment when an employee is off work.
§ Mr. BryanDetails of guaranteed week arrangements for manual workers as laid down in national collective agreements or statutory orders are published, industry by industry, in the annual volume, "Time Rates of Wages and Hours of Work". Comprehensive information covering all types of guarantee payment for all categories of workers is not available.
§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people earn below a gross wage of £28, £24, £20 and £15 per week; and how many of these employees are covered by employers' schemes which guarantee payment when a person is off work through sickness or injury.
§ Mr. BryanThe following estimates, derived from the New Earnings Survey, relate to full-time adult employees whose pay was not affected by absence in the survey pay-period in April, 1970.
nock and Girvan employment exchanges; and of these how many have obtained employment.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithThe numbers of registered disabled persons registered for 349W work at the Ayr, Cumnock and Girvan employment exchanges were as follows:
8th March, 1971 … … 232 8th February, 1971 … … 243 11th January, 1971 … … 246 7th December, 1970 … … 234 9th November, 1970 … … 220 12th October, 1970 … … 193 Information is not readily available about numbers who have obtained employment but 76 registered disabled people were placed in employment by the Disablement Resettlement Officers at those offices during the six months ended 31st March, 1971.
§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many disabled people were registered as unemployed in the United Kingdom in April this year; and how this compares with the same period in each of the past five years.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithThe information for April this year is not yet available, but on 8th March, 1971, 81,902 registered disabled people were registered as unemployed in the United Kingdom.
The totals for the same month in previous years were as follows:
10th March, 1970 … … 75,154 9th March, 1969 … … 72,057 11th March, 1968 … … 68,405 13th March, 1967 … … 60,890 14th March, 1966 … … 48,848