§ Mr. Pikeasked the Paymaster General (1) how many women in (a) Burnley and (b) Pendle are employed in firms with fewer than 10 employees;
310Wunemployed for over 12 months and the numbers of unemployed claimants aged under 25 years in each travel-to-work area of the United Kingdom on 8 January 1987.
§ Mr. Duffyasked the Paymaster General if he will give the total number of men and women employed in Yorkshire, Humberside, South Yorkshire and the Sheffield travel-to-work area in 1979 and each succeeding year to date.
§ Mr. Lee[pursuant to his reply, 24 February 1987, c. 193]: The figures for the Yorkshire and Humberside region can be given but employment statistics for counties and smaller areas are available only for those dates when censuses of employment are taken.
The table gives the available information from censuses taken in June 1978, September 1981 and September 1984. As results of the 1978 census are not available for the new ward based travel-to-work areas, the figures for Sheffield relate to the area as defined before the 1984 review.
(2) how many women in (a) Burnley and (b) Pendle are employed for less than 20 hours per week;
(3) how many women in (a) Burnley and (b) Pendle are in employment; and how many began new jobs on or after 1 June 1985.
§ Mr. LeeThe precise information requested is not available.
Employment statistics for local areas are obtained from censuses of employment and the most recent are for September 1981; the September 1984 census estimates are not yet available for areas smaller than the standard economic regions. Analyses by size of firm or actual numbers of hours worked are not available but, at September 1981, there were 17,400 women employed in the Burnley travel-to-work area (1984 definition) of which 6,400 were working part-time and 11,600 in the Pendle travel-to-work area of which 4,400 were working part-time. Part-time workers are defined as those working not more than 30 hours a week. My Department has no information about the numbers taking up new jobs.