§ Lord Tebbitasked Her Majesty's Government:
What is the increase in the number of full-time equivalent jobs since 1997; how many of these are wholly or partly financed from national and local taxation and how many are in the private sector. [HL2044]
§ Lord McIntosh of HaringeyThe increase in the total number of employee jobs in the economy since 1997 is 1,541,000. The increase in the total number of full-time employed is 846,000 and the increase in the total number of part-time employed is 695,000.
208WANo figures exist for the number of jobs wholly or partly financed from national and local taxation. Figures are available for jobs by public and private sector up to 2001 from Jobs in the public and private sectors, June 2002 issue of Economic Trends, ONS.
Between 1997 and 2001, the increase in the number of jobs in the private sector was 1,326,000 and in the public sector 215,000. This information could only be broken down into full-time and part-time at disproportionate cost. Figures on this basis for 2002 will be published in the June 2003 issue of ONS's.Economic Trends.