§ Mr. David NicholsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many new jobs have been created since May 1979.
§ Mr. LeeThere are no figures for job gains and job losses. Between June 1979 (there are no estimates for May) and December 1988, the latest date for which figures are 59W available, there was a net increase of 1,148,000 in the work force in employment in the United Kingdom. The figures have been adjusted for the effects of seasonal variation. The work force in employment is the sum of employees in employment, the self-employed, Her Majesty's forces and participants in work-related Government training programmes.
§ Mr. David NicholsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what estimates he has of the average number of people employed by companies with turnovers of(a) less than £250,000, (b) £250,000 to £500,000, (c) £500,000 to £1,000,000, (d) £1,000,000 to £2,000,000, (e) £2,000,000 to £5,000,000 and (f) £5,000,000 and above.
§ Mr. CopeThe information requested is not available. The Department's employment estimates are taken from short term surveys and censuses of employment which do not relate employee numbers to company turnover.
Employees in employment1 in the Leeds metropolitan district2 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) 1980 Division of SIC September 1981 September 1984 Number Per cent. Number Per cent. (thousand) (thousand) Manufacturing industries of which: 2.4 85.5 100.0 71.8 100.0 Male part-time — 0.9 1.0 0.7 1.0 Female part-time — 5.5 6.5 4.3 6.0 Service industries of which: 6.9 187.4 100.0 196.1 100.0 Male part-time — 7.7 4.1 9.4 4.8 Female part-time — 47.0 25.1 49.8 25.4 Non-manufacturing industries 0,1, 5.9 216.3 — 223.0 — All industries and services 0.9 301.7 — 294.7 — 1 Excludes the self.employed and members of Her Majesty's forces; employees in temporary employment are included but are not separately identified; part.time workers are defined as those working not more than 30 hours a week. 2 The district is defined in terms of ward boundaries as at 1981.
§ Mr. BattleTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were self-employed in the Leeds metropolitan district for each of the years 1979 to 1989.
§ Mr. LeeThe information is available only for Census Day in April 1981. In the census returns 24,601 people living in the Leeds district said that they were self-employed.
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Unemployment rates for persons of working age2 by highest qualification and region 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 19883 Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women Northern region 'A' level or higher 10.1 1— 10.9 10.3 11.3 9.3 10.0 8.9 9.1 1— 9.1 1— 'O' level or equivalent 15.7 12.8 17.8 10.8 14.2 11.3 16.2 13.1 11.8 12.5 1— 10.9 Below 'O' level 24.3 15.4 19.6 28.1 23.8 18.2 20.5 1— 28.7 16.6 16.9 16.2 No qualification 22.5 11.5 24.6 15.0 21.5 13.2 23.9 13.3 21.1 11.9 26.0 14.5 Yorks and Humberside region 'A' level or higher 8.3 7.2 7.1 9.0 7.0 7.9 7.5 6.7 6.8 5.1 6.1 8.5 'O' level or equivalent 11.4 11.3 13.4 11.5 14.0 11.0 11.9 9.4 9.4 10.3 9.2 8.1 Below 'O' level 18.9 14.2 17.3 15.3 15.1 13.6 17.8 16.8 15.6 11.0 14.6 1— No qualification 18.8 10.9 17.4 11.8 19.9 12.2 18.2 11.4 21.5 11.8 20.4 11.8 East Midlands region `A' level or higher 5.4 1— 4.8 1— 5.7 6.9 6.1 7.6 6.0 6.1 3.6 6.3 'O' level or equivalent 1— 10.2 11.2 9.8 1— 6.4 10.1 8.9 9.6 7.9 1— 9.2 Below 'O' level 12.9 1— 15.7 13.5 16.1 13.0 12.7 14.6 9.9 11.2 11.3 1—
§ Mr. BattleTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) how many(a) part-time and (b) temporary employees there were in the Leeds metropolitan district for each of the years 1979 to 1989 shown by (i) gender and (ii) as a percentage of all employees (1) in manufacturing industries (2) in the service sector;
(2) how many employees were in employment in manufacturing in the Leeds metropolitan district in each of the years 1979 to 1989;
(3) how many manufacturing and non-manufacturing employees there were in employment in the Leeds metropolitan district for each of the years 1979 to 1989.
§ Mr. LeeThe available employee estimates for the area are from censuses of employment taken in September 1981 and September 1984 and are given in the table. More up-to-date employee estimates for local areas, from the September 1987 census of employment, will become available later this year.
This information is available in the Library.
§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what were the unemployment rates by highest qualification held for men and women in each of the standard regions and for Wales for each of the years 1983 to 1988.
§ Mr. Lee[holding answer 19 May 1989]: Estimates from labour force surveys are as shown in the following table:
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1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 19883 Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women No qualification 12.3 10.1 15.0 10.0 15.5 11.9 13.5 9.8 17.2 13.5 13.1 8.4 East Anglia region 'A' level or higher 6.3 1— 4.6 1— 4.5 1— 4.5 1— 6.2 1— 1— 1— 'O' level or equivalent 1— 1— 1— 1— 1— 1— 1— 1— 1— 1— 1— 1— Below 'O' level 1— 1— 1— 1— 1— 1— 1— 1— 1— 1— 1— 1—] No qualification 12.4 8.2 9.3 7.8 10.4 11.8 10.3 9.6 8.7 10.9 6.2 7.0 South East region 'A' level or higher 5.3 6.9 4.8 6.9 4.6 6.9 5.1 7.1 5.2 6.0 3.2 4.5 'O' level or equivalent 8.5 7.4 7.0 7.9 6.8 6.7 7.3 7.8 6.0 7.5 5.0 5.2 Below 'O' level 11.9 11.4 11.4 10.3 11.8 11.3 11.2 9.9 8.4 8.5 6.6 7.8 No qualification 12.4 9.6 12.6 10.0 12.3 9.9 13.5 9.5 13.1 8.9 10.7 8.2 Greater London 'A' level or higher 6.6 6.8 5.9 7.7 5.3 7.0 7.1 8.1 6.6 6.0 4.5 5.6 'O' level or equivalent 10.0 8.3 8.1 9.3 8.3 8.0 9.2 8.1 8.6 8.0 6.8 5.3 Below 'O' level 11.9 11.9 12.4 13.0 14.1 13.3 14.4 11.3 9.6 7.5 8.2 9.6 No qualification 14.3 10.0 14.7 12.3 14.8 12.4 16.5 11.4 16.7 9.6 15.4 10.7 South West region 'A' level or higher 6.0 6.7 5.2 8.7 5.0 6.7 5.7 7.6 4.6 6.8 3.8 3.9 'O' level or equivalent 9.1 8.0 8.6 9.1 1 9.2 8.8 7.8 6.2 9.9 5.6 7.1 Below 'O' level 10.9 13.6 14.2 11.4 12.4 9.2 10.3 11.3 8.7 9.9 6.8 8.1 No qualification 12.1 8.9 11.2 9.2 10.4 8.7 12.9 9.1 14.1 10.1 9.2 9.0 West Midlands region 'A' level or higher 7.7 7.4 7.9 9.7 6.5 8.2 6.0 7.3 6.6 5.2 4.9 4.1 'O' level or equivalent 13.0 12.3 15.2 12.4 13.5 12.8 13.3 10.4 15.3 12.9 7.2 8.2 Below '0' level 17.7 17.1 19.4 17.8 21.5 15.3 15.6 16.1 14.7 13.2 10.8 9.8 No qualification 21.2 13.2 20.4 11.7 21.6 13.9 18.5 11.8 20.5 11.4 13.3 9.8 North West region 'A' level or higher 8.7 7.9 9.7 9.1 8.6 6.9 8.0 8.0 7.8 7.4 6.9 6.8 'O' level or equivalent 13.8 11.1 12.4 10.5 12.5 11.1 11.7 12.3 9.6 11.0 8.3 8.0 Below 'O' level 19.8 14.2 20.6 17.5 18.2 15.4 21.5 18.1 18.8 14.4 14.1 14.4 No qualification 21.7 13.6 23.9 14.0 21.7 13.7 22.9 12.4 21.1 15.1 22.2 12.9 Wales 'A' level or higher 10.1 1 9.3 10.9 8.7 1 8.4 8.5 8.4 8.2 7.8 1 'O' level or equivalent 15.4 11.6 1 12.4 1 1 13.2 13.0 11.2 10.5 1 10.2 Below 'O' level 16.6 1 1 1 19.1 1 28.0 21.8 17.6 1 17.0 1 No qualification 20.9 13.3 20.7 14.5 20.2 14.9 21.9 13.5 21.8 13.7 17.1 14.5 1 Sample size too small for a reliable estimate. 2 Men aged 16–64, women aged 16–59. 3 Preliminary results (1988 only). Source: Labour Force Surveys.