§ 5. Mr. Campbell-SavoursTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if she will make a statement about employment levels in west Cumbria.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe most up-to-date figures are available down to regional level and show that between March 1983 and June 1992 the civilian work force in employment in the northern region, which includes west Cumbria, increased by 67,000.
§ Mr. Campbell-SavoursDoes not the Department of Trade and Industry's current national energy review. with all the talk about coal, important as that is, have major implications for employment in the nuclear industry in west Cumbria? What guarantee have we that the voice of the nuclear industry, as in the case advocated by the West Cumbria TEC, is being channelled into the Department of 130 Employment and relayed on to the Department of Trade and Industry when decisions are taken on the regional assistance map?
§ Mr. McLoughlinI am sure that that case will be taken into account if the TECs feed it into the review currently being undertaken by the President of the Board of Trade. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman would like to feed that view to his Front-Bench colleagues.