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Mr. Dewar
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the change, in numerical and percentage terms, in the number of self-employed people in (a) Scotland and (b) Great Britain between 1979 and the latest year for which figures are available.
Mr. Jackson
The information is as follows:
| Self-employed change between June 1979 and September 1990 | ||
| Actual (000's) | Percentage | |
| Scotland | 90 | 56·3 |
| Great Britain | 1,515 | 82·2 |