§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many (a) male and (b) female employees were in full-time employment in Scotland at the most recent date for which figures are available; and how this figure compared with one year previously and with figures for May 1979.
§ Mr. Allan StewartInformation in the precise form requested is not available. However, the estimates of female employees in full-time employment in June 1979, 1983 and 1984 are 566,000, 498,000 and 501,000 respectively; all females in employment at the same dates are 898,000, 865,000 and 889,000. The estimates for all males in employment at these dates are 1,209,000, 1,073,000 and 1,064,000 respectively: at September 1981, 95 per cent. of the estimated number of all male employees were in full-time employment. The estimates for 1983 and 1984 are provisional.