§ Mr. Michael Forsythasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list for each regional and island council area (a) the percentage of its working population employed in local government, (b) the percentage of its working population employed by central Government, (c) the percentage of its working population employed by nationalised industries, (d) the percentage of its working population unemployed, and (e) the average level of pay of all workers.
§ Mr. Allan StewartThe following table shows the available information expressed as percentages of the working population.* Information for nationalised industries is not available.
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Local Government Employees† Non-industrial Civil Servants‡ Unemployed║ Average Earnings¶ per cent. per cent. per cent. £ £ Borders 11.8 0.7 8.8 n.a. 83.0 Central 12.3 1.5 15.7 162.6 88.6 Dumfries and Galloway 13.1 1.2 13.0 132.0 n.a. Fife 13.5 3.0 13.2 148.6 96.1 Grampian 13.9 1.5 8.5 174.5 98.8 Highland 14.2 1.5 13.4 159.4 97.4 Lothian 12.6 3.8 12.3 153.3 98.1 Orkney 21.7 1.4 11.3 n.a. n.a. Shetland 17.8 1.2 6.1 n.a. n.a. Strathclyde 13.0 2.0 17.3 152.2 93.6 Tayside 12.1 1.3 14.4 141.9 97.2 Western Isles 25.1 2.4 19.9 n.a. n.a. Notes:
* Working population is defined as employees in employment plus unemployed at June 1978.
† Full-time plus part-time employees at June 1983. Employees in services provided on a "joint" basis are included in the largest authority concerned.
‡Estimated full-time equivalent staff in post at 1 July 1983. No breakdown of the 16,351 industrial civil servants by region is available (0.7 per cent. of the working population in Scotland).
║ Derived from records of claimants at October 1983.
¶Average gross weekly earnings at April 1982 for full-time men aged 21 and over and women aged 18 and over whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence.