§ Mr. Lawlerasked the Paymaster General how many new jobs have been created in Bradford since December 1982 by people becoming self-employed.
§ Mr. LangI regret that the information requested is not available from the Department's statistics.
For areas smaller than regions, the only source of information on the number of persons who are self-employed is the decennial census of population. The 1981 census identified 17,023 such persons resident in Bradford.