§ Mrs. FyfeTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many employees in Scotland are in the service sector; and what percentage this forms of the total work force.
§ Mr. StewartI have been asked to reply.
For December 1993, the latest date for which information is available, it is estimated that 1,436,900 employees in employment in Scotland worked in the service sector. This represents 73 per cent. of all employees in employment.
Constituency Date Purpose of visit Blackpool, South 8 October 1993 Visit to Roseacre and Hawes Side Primary Schools Milton Keynes, North-East 13 October 1993 Officially open the new BT Training Centre in Milton Keynes and visit to the Open University Harrogate 16 November 1993 Speak at the CBI Conference in Harrogate Stratford-upon-Avon 25 November 1993 Speak at the Girls' Schools Association Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon Daventry 26 November 1993 Present prizes at Sponne School Prize Giving in Towcester, Northamptonshire Oxford, West and Abingdon 5 January 1994 Speak at the Oxford Teachers' Conference at St. Catherine's College, Oxford City of Chester 7 January 1994 Speak at the North of England Annual Education Conference in Chester Bristol, North-West 28 January 1994 Visit to Pen Park School and Filton FE College Derbyshire, West 9 February 1994 Visit to Ecclesbourne Grant-Maintained School Derby, North 9 February 1994 Visit to Landau Forte CTC Wirral, West 11 February 1994 Visit to Plessington Catholic High School, The Wirral Bournemouth, West 18 March 1994 Speak at the Secondary Heads Association Conference Birmingham, Ladywood 21 March 1994 Speak at the Grant-Maintained Schools Centre's Annual Conference Erith and Crayford 22 March 1994 Visit to Bexley and Erith Technical High School for Boys Newcastle-under-Lyme 12 April 1994 Speak at the Higher Education Funding Council for England's Conference Croydon, South 19 April 1994 Visit to School Curriculum and Assessment Authority's Residential Meeting in Sanderstead