asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people have registered as willing to work, giving details of their skill and experience, at jobcentres covering Mitcham and Morden at the most recent convenient date; and how many people were registered as unemployed for the purposes of benefit in the equivalent area at the same date.
| Persons aged 16 or over in Great Britain | |||||
| (Thousands) | |||||
| Employees in full-time* employment | Employees in part-time* employment | Self-employed | All in employment* | Out of employment and seeking work† | |
| Lone parents with dependent children‡ | 218 | 181 | 43 | 442 | 97 |
| Heads of two-parent families, with dependent children‡ | 4,521 | 33 | 933 | 5,492 | 573 |
| Married women║ | 2,649 | 3,265 | 510 | 6,433 | 553 |
| * The full-time/part-time classification is based on the description given by the survey respondents not the number of hours worked. The total in employment includes those who did not state whether they worked full or part-time and those whose employment status was not stated. | |||||
| † Also includes those not seeking work because of temporary sickness or holiday or because they were waiting to start a new job or awaiting the results of job applications. Full-time students who satisfy these conditions but who are unavailable to start work because they must complete their education are excluded. | |||||
| ‡ Dependent children are those under 16, or those aged 16 to 18 still in full-time education. | |||||
| ║ A small number in this group will also appear in the lone parent group. | |||||
asked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the latest figures for the average weekly earnings of (a) women, (b) men, (c) lone mothers, (d) lone fathers, (e) heads of two-parent families, (f) married women with dependent children and (g) married women without dependent children, respectively.
The most recent available information relating gross earnings to household composition and circumstances is that provided by the 1983 family expenditure survey and is set out as follows:
| Average gross normal weekly wages and salaries* | |
| £ | |
| For employees who are head of household | |
| All men | 170·3 |
| All women | 93·8 |
| One woman with children‡ | 63·8 |
| One man with children‡ | †152·6 |
| One man, one woman and one, two or three children‡ | 181·2 |
| For employees who are the wives of the head of household | |
| Working with dependent children‡ | 55·8 |
| Working without dependent children | 81·4 |
On 7 June 1985 there were 681 people registered for employment at jobcentres in the parliamentary constituency of Mitcham and Morden. This figure includes some employed people seeking a change of employment and some unemployed people not claiming benefits. Jobseekers are no longer required to register at a jobcentre as a condition of claiming unemployment benefit; nor is it necessary to register for employment in order to use the jobcentre.The number of unemployed people claiming unemployment benefit, supplementary allowances or national insurance credits in Mitcham and Morden parliamentary constituency on 13 June was 3,557. It is a condition of receipt of these benefits or credits that a person be unemployed and capable and available for work.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the latest figures for the number of (a) lone parents, (b) heads of two-parent families and (c) married women in full-time employment, part-time employment, self-employed and unemployed.
The latest available estimates come from the 1984 labour force survey and are shown in the following table:
Source: Family Expenditure Survey 1983║
* Covering both full-time and part-time employment. Earnings from self-employment and households where no wages or salaries were received because the individuals were unemployed or unoccupied are omitted from these calculations.
† Based on relatively few households and subject to a substantial sampling margin of possible error.
‡ Persons who are under 18 years of age and unmarried are regarded as children in the survey.
║ The figures relate to the calendar year and are based on a sample of about 7,000 households and will be subject to a margin of sampling and reporting uncertainty.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many doctors have been registered for unemployment benefit and supplementary benefit in the last three years.
I refer the hon. Member to my reply on 11 February 1985 at column 26.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing the estimated number of additional workers in additional jobs created from the beginning of 1983 to the end of 1984 after making allowance for the additional number of second jobs and the additional number of places on temporary employment schemes.
Between December 1982 and December 1984 the employed labour force in Great Britain increased by 553,000. It is estimated that over the same period the number of participants in special employment and training schemes included in the employed labour force reduced by 170,000. The second jobs included in the employees in employment estimates are not separately identified but estimates from the labour force surveys suggest an increase of 60,000 between spring 1983 and spring 1984 in the number of people with a second job as an employee.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of (a) men and (b) women registered as unemployed and under the age of 25 years in the London borough of Wandsworth on 30 June.
The following information is in the Library. Statistics of unemployment are not available for the date requested. On 11 April 1985, the latest date for which an analysis of unemployment by age is available, there were 3,996 male and 2,177 female unemployed claimants under 25 years of age in the London borough of Wandsworth.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of (a) men and (b) women registered as unemployed in the London borough of Wandsworth on 30 June.
The following information is in the Library. Statistics of unemployment are not available for the date requested. On 13 June 1985 there were 11,539 and 4,820 unemployed male and female claimants respectively in the London borough of Wandsworth.