HC Deb 14 June 1994 vol 244 cc408-9W
1993. Mr. Pickthall

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many adult males were employed in the United Kingdom in(a) 1964 and (b)

Miss Widdecombe

In June 1964 there were 16,488,000 males in the work force in employment in the United Kingdom, compared to 13,718,000 in June 1993. Over the same period, female numbers rose from 8,444,000 to 11,520,000.

1993. Mr. Pickthall

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many married women were employed in the United Kingdom in(a) 1964 and (b)

Miss Widdecombe

The estimate for spring 1993 from the labour force survey for the United Kingdom is that 8.4 million married women were in employment.

There are no equivalent LFS estimates before 1979, but the census of population held in 1966 shows 5 million married women in employment in the United Kingdom.

Southwark Lambeth Lewisham Tower Hamlets
Claimant unemployed 18–24 year olds (April 1994) 5395 6,046 4,943 4,277
Further Education students aged 18–25 years domiciled within each borough1 (academic year 1992–93)
Full-time and Sandwich 1,015 1,456 1,018 1,108
Part-time 1,526 2,282 1,677 1,451
Total 2,541 3,738 2,695 2,559
1 Students may study in places other than where they are domiciled.

Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people in the London borough of Southwark have found employment in the last 12 months; and how many of these jobs were(a) full-time and (b) part-time or job share.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

Information held centrally relates only to the number of people placed into jobs by the Employment Service jobcentres and numbers of people leaving claimant unemployment.

Between April 1993 and April 1994 jobcentres covering the Southwark area placed 9,591 people into employment. Nineteen out of 20 of all the jobcentre vacancies filled in Southwark during this period were for full-time jobs and the remainder for part-time. It should be noted that, nationally, only about one quarter of all engagements are made through jobcentres. Figures are not available for job-share vacancies.

In the Southwark local authority area the unadjusted number of people leaving claimant unemployment between April 1993 and April 1994 was 24,198. Information is not routinely available on the destinations of claimants who leave unemployment. However, past survey evidence indicates that the majority of people who leave claimant unemployment go into jobs.