§ Mr. Peter BottomleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the proportion of workers in(a) temporary or contract employment and (b) part-time work in each EC country, in (i) the latest year for which information is available and (ii) 10 years previously.
§ Miss WiddecombeLatest comparable estimates of the proportion of employees in temporary employment and the proportion working part time across all EC countries are for spring 1991 and are given in the table. No comparable figures exist prior to 1983, so proportions for this year have also been supplied in the table.
In addition, a footnote to the table provides spring 1993 figures for the United Kingdom.
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Proportion of employees in temporary and part-time employment Percentage Proportion of employees in temporary employment Proportion of employees working part-time Country 1983 1991 1983 1991 Spain — 32 — 4 Greece 16 15 5 3 Portugal — 14 — 4 Denmark — 12 26 24 France 3 10 9 12 Federal Republic of Germany — 9 12 15 Ireland 6 8 6 9 Netherlands 6 8 21 32 Italy 7 5 4 5 United Kingdom1 5 5 19 23 Belgium 5 5 8 13 Luxembourg 2 3 6 7 Europe 10 — 8 12 16 Europe 12 — 10 — 14 Source: Eurostat "Labour Force Survey 1983–91".
"—" information not available.
1 More recent figures for the United Kingdom, from the spring 1993 labour force survey, show 6 per cent. of employees in temporary employment and 25 per cent. of employees working part time.
§ Dr. GodmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the number of those aged(a) 16 to 18 years, (b) 18 to 19 years and (c) 16 to 24 years unemployed in the parliamentary constituency of Greenock and Port Glasgow; what percentages they are of the cohort; how many persons under the age of 25 years in the same parliamentary constituency have never worked; and what percentage of those aged 16 years in Greenock and Port Glasgow (i) stayed on at school, (ii) went into jobs and (iii) went into youth training in the last year for which figures are available.
§ Miss WiddecombeIn October 1993, unadjusted claimant unemployment in Greenock and Port Glasgow stood at 194 for 16 to 18-year-olds, 285 for 18 to 19-year-olds and 1,046 for 16 to 24-year-olds. This represents the extent of the available information at the constituency level.
§ Dr. GodmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the average wage of(a) a male and (b) a female in (i) full-time employment and (ii) part-time employment in Greenock and Port Glasgow in each year since 1979.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythThe information available is for Strathclyde. The average earnings of full-time men and women in Strathclyde can be found in tables 110 and 113 of part E of the new earnings survey for each of the years concerned. Copies of the report can be found in the Library.
Information for part-time men and women is provided in the table:
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Part-time employees in Strathclyde—pay unaffected by absence Average gross hourly earnings: at April Men Women 1979 1— 1.30 1980 1— 1— 1981 1— 1.78 1982 1— 2.05 1983 1— 2.24
Men Women 1984 1— 2.33 1985 1— 2.56 1986 1— 1— 1987 2.77 2.88 1988 1— 3.08 1989 1— 3.54 1990 1— 3.97 1991 1— 4.39 1992 1— 4.74 1993 1— 4.87 1 Denotes sample number too small or standard error too high for a reliable estimate. Source: new earnings survey.
§ Dr. GodmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is his estimate of the most recent residence-based unemployment rates for each district council area in the parliamentary constituency of Greenock and Port Glasgow, giving the figures overall and broken down for males and females; what is the change in the number of unemployed claimants in Greenock and Port Glasgow for the same month in each of the last seven years; and what have been the percentage changes since 1979.
§ Miss WiddecombeInformation about numbers of unemployed claimants in Greenock and Port Glasgow constituency is available monthly from June 1983, and can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the Library. This is the extent of the available information. Residence-based International Labour Organisation unemployment rates are available from the labour force survey for some district councils, but not for Inverclyde, which contains the Greenock and Port Glasgow constituency, because the latter is too small.