§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people are currently employed in the mining industry
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§ Mr. GoldingAt October 1976, the latest date for which information is available, 1,320,923 people were registered as unemployed in Great Britain.
Analyses showing the numbers who last worked in the public and private sectors, respectively, are not compiled. However, analyses according to the industry in which the unemployed person last worked are made and the latest relate to August 1976. These analyses are based on the Minimum List Headings of the Standard Industrial Classification, but some individual headings can relate to both public and private sector employment. Imprecise estimates for these two sectors can, however, be made by allocating the whole of a Minimum List Heading to the sector with which it is mainly associated.
On this imprecise basis, the numbers who last worked in (a) the Civil Service, local authorities, nationalised industries and other public employment and (b) private sector employment were 168,000 and 877,000, respectively. The remainder could not be classified by industry.