Part-Time Workers

Mr. Wallace
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what information he has on the proportion of male employees in Scotland who work part-time.

Mr. Allan Stewart
[holding answer 27 January 1992]: In September 1989, the latest date for which figures are available, 7·4 per cent. of all male employees in  employment in Scotland worked part-time. This information comes from the 1989 Employment Department census of employment.