§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Paymaster General if he will compare the total number of persons employed in the entire public sector (a) in actual and (b) in full-time equivalent terms, where appropriate, for each of the years 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1985, respectively; and if he will show these figures as a percentage of the total employed work force in each year.
§ Mr. LangI refer my hon. Friend to an article "Employment in the public and private sectors 1979 to 1985" on pages 90–98 ofEconomic Trends December 1985, a copy of which is in the Library. The entire public sector employment figures, actual and full-time equivalents, are given in table 1 of appendix 1 for the years 1979 to 1985. The employed labour force figure for 1979 is in table A and the corresponding figures for the years 1980 to 1985 are in table 2 of appendix 1.