§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many of the official total of unemployed for December 1992 were self-employed immediately before registering as unemployed.
§ Mr. McLoughlinNo information is available in respect of the claimant count. Estimates from the summer (June to August) 1992 labour force survey indicate that there were 275,000 people in Great Britain unemployed on the international standard ILO definition (not seasonally adjusted) who reported their employment status in their last job as self-employed. This represents 9.8 per cent. of total unemployed.
§ Mr. Nicholas BrownTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many vacancies in the shipbuilding and manufacturing engineering sectors have been(a) notified to and (b) filled through the Newcastle area job centres in each year since 1987; and how many people were (i) employed and (ii) seeking employment in those sectors in the Newcastle area in each of those years.
§ Mr. McLoughlinInformation on the total numbers of people seeking employment, regardless of their current employment status, is not available.
The information requested on vacancies can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the Library. Information on the numbers employed is available only for the years 1987, 1989 and 1991 and can also be obtained from the NOMIS database there.
§ Mrs. DunwoodyTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were unemployed in the Cheshire area in(a) September 1990, (b) September 1991 and (c) September 1992.
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§ Mr. McLoughlinOn the unadjusted basis, there were 23,518 unemployed claimants in the county of Cheshire in September 1990, 34,916 in September 1991 and 38,655 in September 1992.