§ Mr. Thurnhamasked the Paymaster General how many of those out of work at the latest date for which figures are available (a) for more than one year, (b) for more than three years and (c) for more than five years (i) were married, (ii) have more than one child, (iii) have two children and (iv) are single parents of a child or children under the age of 16 years.
§ Mr. LeeThe available information which is from the labour force survey is set out in the table:
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Number of people without a job and looking for work Great Britain, spring 1985 Unemployed and seeking work for over 1 year Thousands Unemployed and seeking work for over 3 years Thousands (i) Married People 633 288
Unemployed and seeking work for over 1 year Thousands Unemployed and seeking work for over 3 years Thousands (ii) People1 with more than one child under 16 283 131 (iii) People1 with two children under 162 164 67 (iv) Single parents with children under 163 47 21 1 Heads of family units and wives of heads of family units. 2 Included in (ii). 3 Included in (ii) and (iii). Note:
No separate analysis is available of those unemployed more than five years.
§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Paymaster General if he will publish a table showing the number of additional (a) jobs in service industries, (b) jobs in banking, insurance and finance, (c) self-employed and (d) small business starts over stops, created in (i) Northern Ireland and (ii) the United Kingdom between June 1983 and June 1986.
§ Mr. Lee[pursuant to his reply, 17 December 1986, c. 539]: Information about job gains and losses is not available from the Department's statistics, but an indication of the net changes can he seen by comparing levels of employment at different dates.
Table 1 gives the net changes between June 1983 and June 1986 in the numbers of employees in employment in the industries specified, and in the numbers of self-employed, in Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom.
TABLE 1 Net Charges in Employment between June 1983 and June 1986 Northern Ireland United Kingdom Employees in Employment Service industries (6–9)1 1,000 948,000 Banking, Insurance and finance (8)1 No change 333,000 Self Employed Total -1,000 505,000 1 Figures in brackets denote the divisions of the 1980 Standard Industrial classification. The available information on numbers of businesses relates to the number registered for VAT and is given in table 2.
TABLE 2 Net Increase in the Number of Businesses Registered for VAT Northern Ireland United Kingdom Start of 1983 to end of 19841 2,200 63,000 Start of 1983 to end of 1985 — 83,000 1 Later estimates are not available for Northern Ireland.
§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Paymaster General if he will publish a table showing for Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom as a whole the number of persons at work who are (a) employees and (b) self-employed in June 1979, June 1983 and June 1986 or the latest month for which figures are available; and if he will estimate the number of second jobs included in these figures.
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§ Mr. Lee[pursuant to his reply, 17 December 1986, c. 539]: The following tables give the numbers of employees in employment and self-employed at the dates and for the areas specified.
The second jobs included in the employees in employment estimates are not separately identified, but estimates from the labour force surveys suggest that the numbers of people with a second job as an employee in the United Kingdom in spring 1979 and spring 1983 were 247,000 and 382,000, respectively.
Estimates are not available for spring 1986. The survey sample is not large enough to give reliable estimates separately for Northern Ireland. The employment estimates do not include second jobs when they are held as self-employed.
Table 1 Employees in employment Thousand. June 1979 June 1983 June 1986 Northern Ireland 519 466 455 United Kingdom 23,157 21,037 21,525
Table 2 Self employed Thousand. June 1979 June 1983 June 1986 Northern Ireland 83 80 79 United Kingdom 1,925 2,240 2,745