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Mrs. Roe
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment by how much the number of women who are self-employed has changed since 1979.
Mr. Nicholls
The estimated number of self-employed women in the United Kingdom rose from 357,000 in June 1979 to 782,000 in December 1989, an increase of 426,000 (119 per cent.).