Part-time Employment
(asked on 21st July 2015) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to paragraph 2.11 of the Spending Review 2015 (Cm 9112), how many of the two million jobs referred to in that paragraph are part-time.
This question was answered on 11th September 2015
Over the last Parliament the number of people in employment increased by almost 2 million, meaning on average an extra 1,000 people in work every single day. The number working full-time increased by 1.5 million making up 76 per cent of the rise in employment, while the number of part-time workers rose by 482,000.