§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many additional jobs were created in special employment schemes and in (a) community programme and (b) youth training in 1983 and 1984.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe numbers covered by the employment and training schemes and the estimated direct effect on unemployment at 31 March in 1983 and 1984 is set out in the following table:
31 March 1983 31 March 1984 (a) Covered by Community Programme and Community Enterprise Programme 39,000 113,000 (b) Covered by Youth Training Scheme and Youth Opportunities Programme 240,000 285,000 (c) Covered by Other Schemes 378,000 247,000 (d) Total covered 657,000 645,000 (e) Estimated direct effect on unemployment 365,000 455,000
§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Secretary of State for Employment if the additional numbers employed in special employment schemes are included in his estimate for the additional jobs created in 1983 and 1984.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkParticipants in the community programme, young worker's scheme job splitting scheme, temporary short-time working compensation scheme, job release scheme, and training for skills, together with those on the youth training scheme who have contracts of14W employment are included in the estimates of the numbers of employees in employment. Those supported by the enterprise allowance scheme are included in the estimates of self employment.
§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many additional jobs have been created for (a) employees and (b) the self-employed in 1985 to date; and what proportion are part-time.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkEstimates of the change in the numbers in employment in the first quarter of 1985 will first be available on Wednesday 17 July 1985. In 1984, the number of employees in employment in Great Britain is estimated to have increased by 142,000 and the numbers of self employed by 199,000. There was an increase of 184,000 female employees in part-time jobs in 1984; corresponding figures for part-time males are not available. The latest available figures subdividing self employment between full and part-time work show that nearly 80,000 of the 273,000 increase in self employment between June 1983 and June 1984 was among part-timers.
§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Secretary of State for Employment, further to his answer of 10 July, how many additional jobs created for employees in 1983 and 1984 he estimates to be second jobs.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe second jobs included in the employees in employment estimates are not separately identified. Estimates from labour force surveys suggest an increase of 60,000 between spring 1983 and spring 1984 in the number of people with a second job as an employee; however, such estimates from sample surveys are subject to appreciable uncertainty.