HC Deb 07 July 1993 vol 228 c197W
Mr. French

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is his estimate of the number of people in the United Kingdom life insurance industry who are(a) employed and (b) self-employed.

Miss Widdecombe

The information requested is available only for the whole of the insurance industry (excluding compulsory social security). Latest estimates from the Labour Force Survey, for the United Kingdom, show that there were 277,000 employees and 10,000 self-employed people in this industry in spring 1992.