Mr. Jim Callaghanasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the latest available information on the numbers of self-employed persons with or without employees (a) the United Kingdom and (b) the Greater Manchester county; and what were the figures for 1978, 1979 and 1980.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonIt is estimated from the 1979 European Community labour force survey that there were some 1.9 million self-employed people in the United Kingdom, of whom about 70,000 lived in Greater Manchester. Information for the other years requested is not available.