§ Mr. Knoxasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were in full-time employment in the United Kingdom on 1 January in each of the past 10 years.
§ Mr. AlisonComprehensive information on the number of full-time employees in the United Kingdom during this period is available only from the censuses of employment which were conducted each June from 1971 to 1978. Up-to-date quarterly estimates of the numbers of females in full-time employment in Great Britain are published regularly inEmployment Gazette but the quarterly estimates for males and for Northern Ireland do not distinguish between full and part-time employees.
The following table gives the census data for 1971 to 1978 together with provisional estimates of total employment for later years.
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Employees in employment: United Kingdom thousand Total of which full-time June 1971 22,122 18,732 1972 22,121 18,593 1973 22,664 18,779 1974 22,789 18,612 1975 22,710 18,386 1976 22,543 18,179 1977 22,619 18,236 1978 22,757 18,285
Total of which full-time *1979 22,920 not available *1980 22,511 not available *1981 21,198 not available December *1981 20,843 not available * Provisional. A further census, the results of which are expected to be published later this year, was conducted in September 1981.
§ Mr. Winnickasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the present percentage level of unemployment in Aldridge, Brownhills, Cannock, Lichfield, Rugeley, Walsall and Willenhall.
§ Mr. AlisonThe areas are the component parts of the Walsall travel-to-work area for which the rate at 10 June was 17.4 per cent. Unemployment rates are calculated for complete travel-to-work areas and not separately for their constituent parts.
§ Mr. D. E. Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Employment what has been the percentage increase in male and female unemployment in the United Kingdom and Wales, respectively, from 1979 to 1982.
§ Mr. AlisonBetween June 1979 and June 1982 the numbers of males and females registered as unemployed in the United Kingdom increased by 135 and 112 per cent., respectively. The corresponding increases for Wales were 118 and 86 per cent.