HC Deb 05 March 1963 vol 673 cc33-4W
Sir D. Kaberry

asked the Minister of Labour (1) if he will state, at the latest convenient date, the total number of insured wage-earners and self-employed in the City of Leeds in the following occupations, namely, wholesale clothing, distributive trades, general engineering, building, woollen and worsted, printing and bookbinding, coal mining, boot and shoe, hotels and restaurants, furniture trades, public works contracting, iron castings and general ironfounding, iron rolling mills and forges, leather manufacture, railway wagon building, gas, water, electricity, miscellaneous metal working, professional, legal, medical, etc., haulage, garages, etc., bleaching, dyeing, making-up textiles, drink, bricks and fireclay goods, railway service, motor cars and aircraft, chemicals, electrical motors and switchgear, brush making, sawmilling, scientific instrument making, hat and cap making, electric wiring and contracting, jobbing woodwork, basket making, etc., glass, other than bottle and optical, and saddlery, including leather belting, together with other trades and occupations in which the total number of insured employees is less than 100 in each case;

(2) if he will state, at the latest convenient date, the total number of insured wage-earners and self-employed in the City of Leeds in the following occupations, namely, national Government services, oils, soap, polishes, inks, laundries, blouse and shirt making, tram and omnibus service, cocoa and sugar confectionery, entertainments and sport, banking, insurance, finance, brass founding, local government, bolts, screws, nail making, bread, biscuit making, brass, copper, etc., smelting, rolling, vehicle building and repair, embroidery and small-wares, textile, cardboard boxes and paper bags, glass-bottle making, dress and mantle making, jam making, spices, sauce, canal services, linen manufacture, wallpaper manufacture, tobacco manufacture, musical instruments, grain milling, carpet industry, watch, clock making, engineering, bridges, rope, cord, twine manufacture, paper making, patent fuel, packing case making and iron and steel tube manufacture.

Mr. Hare

The information is not available in the precise form requested, but I am sending to my hon. Friend details of employees analysed under the headings of the Standard Industrial Classification. Figures for self-employed are not available for local areas.