§ Mr. Leightonasked the Paymaster General how many people have been removed from the unemployment count over the last 12 months by special employment measures and YTS.
§ Mr. LeeIn September 1985 some 312,000 people were participating in the employment measures and it was then estimated that around 227,000 people were in jobs, training or early retirement instead of claiming benefit. At the end of September 1986, some 369,000 people were participating in the employment measures, with an estimated direct effect on unemployment of 285,000. YTS is a training measure and there are no estimates of its direct effect on unemployment. Since the nationwide introduction of restart from July 336,451 people have had a personal interview and of that number 30,218 have left the unemployment count.
§ Mr. Leightonasked the Paymaster General what percentage of all people in work in 1979 were working part-time; and what was the percentage in each year since.
§ Mr. LeeWithin the regularly published employment series the estimates of the numbers of male employees in employment do not separately identify those in part-time employment. Estimates of the numbers of full-time and part-time male and female employees in employment are available from censuses of employment. For the dates specified, census of employment results are available only for September 1981, at which time 21 per cent. of employees in employment were part-time employees.
The labour force survey provides information on a different basis, but separately identifies part-time male and female employees and self-employed. The available estimates of the percentages of employees and self-employed in part-time employment are presented in the following table.
Labour force survey estimates1 of employees and self-employed in part-time2 employment Great Britain Year Per cent. 1979 317.9 1981 319.7 1983 19.0 1984 20.9 1985 21.2 1 Estimates relate to the spring of each year. Percentages for 1983, 1984 and 1985 exclude those on Government schemes, whereas 1979 and 1981 include those on schemes if reported as in employment. 2 In this table a person has been included as in part-time employment if he considers his job to be a part-time job. 3 Employees only, as in 1979 and 1981 the self-employed were not asked if they worked full or part-time.
§ Mr. Leightonasked the Paymaster General what percentage of the work force in hotels and catering are male and female; and of these how many are full-time and how many part-time.
§ Mr. LeeWithin the regularly published employment series the estimates of the numbers of male employees in employment do not separately identify those in full and part-time employment. The latest available estimates of all 149W male, all female and part-time female employees in employment in the hotels and catering industry in Great Britain are given in table 1.4 of the labour market data section in the October 1986 issue of Employment Gazette, a copy of which is in the Library.