asked the Paymaster General whether he will bring up to date the labour force figures given in his reply dated 28 April 1986, Official Report, columns 335–37; and if he will add a table for the same years covering manufacturing.

The available information from the regular quarterly employees in employment series is presented in tables 1 and 2.The available information from the "Labour Force Survey" is presented in table 3 below.

asked the Paymaster General (1) when he expects to announce revised local unemployment rates based on the employment figures contained in the 1984 census of employment;(2) if he will publish the revised national and regional unemployment rates for each month since June 1983, based on his updated employment figures contained in the 1984 census of employment.

I shall reply to the hon. Member as soon as possible.

asked the Paymaster General what was the percentage change in unemployment in Derbyshire, between January 1986 and January 1987, for those people without a job for more than three years.

The following information is in the Library. Comparison of unemployment between 9 January 1986 and 8 January 1987 is slightly affected by the change in the compilation of the unemployment statistics in March 1986. The published numbers of claimants unemployed for over three years in Derbyshire on the two dates are 7,731 and 8,738 respectively.

asked the Paymaster General what are the latest figures available for the number of people in work in Derbyshire; and how this compares with 1979.

The latest available information for country areas and covering both employees and the self-employed comes from the 1981 census of population and is contained in the "County Report for Derbyshire", part 1 ref: CEN 81 CR10, a copy of which is in the Library. No similar data are available for 1979.

asked the Paymaster General if he will state the number of persons in full-time employment as at (a) June 1986 and (b) the latest available date; and if he will make a statement.

In June 1986 there were 16,105,000 full-time employees in employment in Great Britain. In September 1986 (the latest date for which estimates are available) the figure was 16,234,000. These figures are not seasonally adjusted.

asked the Paymaster General if he will publish the total effect on the numbers on the unemployment register of those working in special employment and training measures, for each month from February 1986.

[pursuant to his reply, 6 April 1987, c. 36]: For the latest estimate of the percentage effect of the employment measures on the unemployment count I refer the hon. Member to my reply to the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) on 27 March 1987, at column 293. The estimates provide no more than a very rough guide to the effect of such measures on the count and we do not, therefore, publish monthly count figures claiming to incorporate the effect.

asked the Paymaster General if he will list, for each year of the age range 16 to 25, the number and proportion of those in school, work, further education, higher education, community programmes, or other specified scheme.

[pursuant to his reply, 7 April 1987, c. 152]: The latest available estimates are set out in the following table. Figures are not available for 25-year-olds and those for 19 to 24 year olds are not available for each year of age separately.

asked the Paymaster General if he will give the number of people over 18 years who receive training allowances through the Manpower Services Commission to support them in their training; and how this figure compares with each of the last eight years.

[pursuant to his reply, 7 April 1987, c. 156]: The figures give the information requested. These are of course not the numbers of people being trained with Government support, but only the numbers who receive an income by way of allowance when being trained.