HC Deb 13 January 1989 vol 144 cc787-8W
Mr. Battle

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing the total percentage of the economically active population employed, in a part-time capacity, in each sector of the economy, set out by age and gender, for the years 1979, 1983 and the latest available date.

Mr. Lee

Estimates from the 1979, 1983 and 1987 labour force survey of employees in part-time employment as a percentage of the economically active in Great Britain, by industry sector, age and sex, are presented in the following table:

Mr. Cope

Training and enterprise councils (TECs) will receive substantial funding from the Government through the Training Agency. They will also be encouraged to stimulte private sector investment in training and enterprise. It is too early to gauge what proportion of TEC's funding will come from non-Government sources.