§ Mr. Michael Marshallasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were registered as self-employed in each of the last six years.
§ Mr. GoldingFollowing is the information available about the numbers of employers and self-employed persons working on their own account—with or without employees—in the United Kingdom in each year from 1969 to 1974, the latest date for which these estimates have been compiled:
1969 1,853,000 1970 1,902,000 1971 1,909,000 1972 1,899,000 1973 1,947,000 1974 1,925,000