HC Deb 13 July 1999 vol 335 cc182-3W
Mr. Steinberg

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many(a) male and (b) female employees in the City of Durham were in (i) full-time and (ii) part-time employment in (1) temporary and (2) permanent jobs in each year since 1990. [90985]

Ms Hewitt

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Director of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to reply.

Letter from John Kidgell to Mr. Gerry Steinberg, dated 13 July 1999: In the absence of the Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your recent parliamentary question on employment in the City of Durham. The information is available from two sources. Employee Jobs from the Annual Employment Survey (AES) are shown for the City of Durham Parliamentary Constituency, by gender and full-time/part-time status at September of 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996 and 1997 in the attached table. This Survey was formerly known as the Census of Employment when it was conducted biennially. Figures from the September 1998 AES will be available in January/February 2000. The second source of information is the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Figures from the LFS are shown for Permanent/Temporary Employees by gender in the table. However this data is only available for the wider area of the County of Durham at 1996, 1997 and 1998. Both sources of information are not seasonally adjusted.

Employee Jobs in City of Durham1 at September
Thousand
1991 1993 1995 1996 1997
Male
full-time 15.7 15.6 16.2 15.8 16.2
Male
part-time 1.5 1.6 1.8 1.8 1.7
Female
full-time 10.2 9.6 10.4 9.3 10.6
Female
part-time 9.6 9.8 9.9 10.2 9.4
All 36.9 36.5 38.3 37.1 37.9
1 Parliamentary Constituency

Source:

1991–1993 Census of Employment, 1995–1997 Annual Employment Survey

Number of temporary and permanent employees in the Former County of Durham
Thousand
19962 19972 19982
Males
Permanent 117 109 113
Temporary 8 10 9
All employees1 126 120 123
Females
Permanent 102 99 97
Temporary 9 7 9
All employees1 112 107 107
All
Permanent 219 207 209
Temporary 17 17 19
All employees1 237 227 229
1 Includes some employees who did not state whether they were temporary or permanent
2 Average of the spring to winter quarters

Source:

Labour Force Survey