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Mr. Craigen
asked the Secretary of State for Employment, pursuant to his reply on 28 October, Official Report, c. 488, to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Maryhill, if he will give an analysis of the main employment categories in the year 1981–82 which were beneficiaries of the employment transfer scheme.
Mr. Alison
In the year from 1 April 1981 to 31 March 1982, 5,367 people benefited from the employment transfer scheme. Comprehensive statistics on their occupations are not available in the form requested. However, an analysis of the occupations of a sample of the people benefiting from the scheme in 1981–82 suggests that the beneficiaries were roughly divided among broad employment categories as follows:
| Per cent. | |
| Professional and technician engineers | 7 |
| Other managerial and professional | 9 |
| Hospital workers (including nurses) | 8 |
| Skilled and semi-skilled manual workers | 25 |
| Clerical and selling (including retail) | 22 |
| Hotel and catering | 11 |
| Others | 18 |