HC Deb 23 March 1979 vol 964 cc769-70W
Mr. Forrester

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the number of men who have continued to work full-time or part-time after reaching the ages of 65 years and 70 years in each of the last three years.

Mr. Golding

It is estimated that in Great Britain in each of the years 1976 to 1978 the number of men aged 65 and over in employment was approximately 350,000 of whom about two-thirds were aged between 65 and 69. Because of the small size of the surveys on which the estimates are based the figures should be regarded as giving broad orders of magnitude and it has not been possible to identify significant differences between the estimates for individual years.