§ 42. Mr. Leightonasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many jobs have been lost in manufacturing industry as a result of the increases of manufactured imports between 1974 and 1979.
§ Mr. Jim LesterBetween 1974 and 1979, the total numbers of employees in employment in manufacturing industries in Great Britain fell by about two-thirds of a million. Because it depends on many complex interacting factors, the contribution of the effects of increased manufactured imports to this fall could be produced only by simulation of a macroeconomic model incorporating a large number of speculative assumptions and at disproportionate cost.