HC Deb 03 March 1994 vol 238 c861W
Mr. Matthew Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment, pursuant to his answer of 14 February,Official Report, column 644, what was the budgeted and actual cost of each of the public information campaigns listed.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

The information requested is set out in the following table:

Campaign 1993–94 Budgeted spend £
Make it your Business 2,000,000
1993 National Training Awards 564,000
Career Development Loans 1,870,000
Careers Service 150,000
New Horizons for Women 300,000
Just the Job/New Measures 1,800,000
Employer Campaign 1,300,000
Disability 1,300,000

Employees in Employment: Great Britain (seasonally adjusted)
Thousands
Full-time males Percentage of male working age population Full-time females Percentage of female working age population
1973 12,824 77.2 5,530 36.6
1979 112,390 73.0 5,598 35.9
1989 10,814 60.3 5,936 36.3
19932 9,405 52.2 5,485 33.3
1Employees data relates to 1978.
2September 1993; latest data available.

Full-time employees data are unavailable prior to 1971.