§ 49. Mr. Lamondasked the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of employees in the textile industry in the Oldham district in each of the years 1950, 1960 and 1970.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithThe latest employment estimates for local areas are for 1969 and the earliest on a broadly comparable basis are for 1952. The estimated numbers of those, employed and unemployed, in the textile industries in the area covered by the Oldham and Chadderton and Failsworth employment exchanges were about 26,000 in June, 1952, about 16,000 in June, 1960 and just under 11,000 in June, 1969.