HC Deb 11 May 1981 vol 4 cc185-6W
Mr. Spriggs

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many (a) male and (b) female employees are employed on a (i) full-time and (ii) part-time basis, in England, at the latest date for which information is available.

Mr. Peter Morrison

The latest available estimates of employees in employment in England relate to December 1980 and give 10,688,000 male and 7,721,000 female employees. Of the females 4,502,000 were in full-time employment and 3,219,000 worked part-time.

The latest estimate for male part-time employment is from the June 1978 census of employment when there were 621,000 males in part-time employment out of a total of 11,281,000 male employees in employment in England.

Mr. Spriggs

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many (a) male and (b) female workers are unemployed in each English region at the latest date for which information is available.

Mr. Peter Morrison

The following table gives the provisional numbers of males and females registered as unemployed at 9 April in the areas specified.

Male Female
South-East 407,071 141,050
East Anglia 46,119 15,850
South-West 111,272 45,238
West Midlands 206,673 79,606
East Midlands 112,312 40,308
Yorkshire and Humberside 170,276 62,338
North-West 253,178 104,201
North 136,913 51,787

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