HC Deb 16 January 1987 vol 108 c333W
Mr. John Fraser

asked the Paymaster General if he will provide the numbers employed within the London docklands, together with an analysis of the nature of the occupations currently followed there.

Mr. Lee

Employment statistics for local areas are obtained from the census of employment and the most recent are for September 1981. Local estimates for the September 1984 census are not yet ready. An analysis by occupation is not available but, at September 1981, there were 25,000 employees employed in the area. The figures relates to the area covered by the wards of Custom House and Silvertown, Dockyard, Riverside, Blackwall and Millwall which corresponds most closely to the London docklands.

Mr. Tom Cox

asked the Paymaster General what is the number of people living in the Greater London area who have never worked since leaving school.

Mr. Lee

The following information is in the Library. On 11 December 1986 there were 36,947 unemployed claimants in Greater London of all ages who had not had a job since leaving full-time education, and of these, 7,115 were aged under 18 years.

Mr. Onslow

asked the Paymaster General what is the latest information available to him about the proportion of all those in employment who have two or more jobs; and how this compares with the corresponding figures for each of the five previous years for which the information is available.

Mr. Lee

The latest available estimate of the proportion of persons in employment with a second job comes from the 1985 "Labour Force Survey".

Comparisons with available estimates from previous "Labour Force Surveys" are presented in the following table:

Proportion of persons in employment1 having a second job Great Britain
Year Percentage
1979 1.6
1981 2.1
1983 2.4
1984 3.0
1985 3.3
1Estimates relate to the spring of each year. The data for 1983, 1984 and 1985 include persons in Government schemes, whereas 1979 and 1981 only include those on schemes who reported themselves as in employment.