To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people in south Derbyshire were employed in (a) 1983, (b) 1987, (c) 1991 and (d) at present, including the self-employed; and what is the rate of change of employment over the same period.
The latest available local area data for the self-employed come from the population censuses for April 1981.
Information about employees in employment in parliamentary constituencies is from the periodic censuses of employment. No census was taken in 1983 and 1989 is the latest date for which figures are available. The numbers of employees in employment in South Derbyshire are shown in the table:
September of each year
| Number of employees
| Percentage increase since 1984
|
| 1984 | 18,800 | |
| 1987 | 19,600 | +4.3 |
| 1989 | 20,500 | +9.4 |