§ Mr. BoyesTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list job losses in each year since 1973 in the Houghton and Washington constituency and give the level of youth unemployment in the same years.
§ Miss WiddecombeThe information is not available in the form requested. Comparable employment information for parliamentary constituencies is available only form the periodic censuses of employment, held between 1984 and 1991. This can be used to estimate the net change in the number of employees in employment.
Claimant unemployment statistics for local areas are available from July 1983. Statistics for particular age bands are available quarterly for the months of January, April, July and October.
Employment and unemployment statistics for parliamentary constituencies can be obtained from the NOMIS database available in the Library.
§ Mr. BoyesTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many new jobs have been created in the Houghton and Washington constituency in each year since 1973.
§ Miss WiddecombeThe information is not available in the form requested. Comparable employment information for parliamentary constituencies is available only from the periodic censuses of employment, held between 1984 and 1991. This can be used to estimate the net change in the number of employees in employment, and is given in the following table:
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Employees in employment in Houghton and Washington constituency, September of each year Year Number 1984 28,400 1987 27,400 1989 27,800 1991 29,100
§ Mr. BurdenTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what proportion of full-time manual workers, full-time non-manual workers and all full-time workers earned, including overtime, less than £203.07 per week in(a) the west midlands region and (b) Great Britain for (i) males, (ii) females and (iii) all adults in 1993.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythThe information is provided in the following table:
Full-time employees on adult rates—pay unaffected by absence Proportion with gross weekly earnings below £203 07: April 1993 Per cent. West midlands region Great Britain Manual men 26.2 25.9 Non-manual men 13.9 11.6 All men 20.2 18.1 Manual women 76.8 73.9 Non-manual women 44.0 35.1 All women 51.1 42.0 Manual adults 35.4 34.7 Non-manual adults 27.7 22.4 All adults 30.8 26.7 Source: "New Earnings Survey".
§ Mr. BurdenTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what proportion of part-time female manual workers, part-time female non-manual workers and all part-time female workers earned, excluding overtime, less than £5.42 per hour in(a) the west midlands region and (b) Great Britain in 1993.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythThe information requested is provided in the table:
Part-time employees on adult rates—pay unaffected by absence Proportion with gross hourly earnings, excluding overtime, below £5.42: April 1993Per cent. Per cent. West midlands region Great Britain Manual women 93.0 91.2 Non-manual women 66.7 64.2 All women 77.2 73.8 Source: "New Earnings Survey".