§ Mr. Strawasked the Secretary of State for Employment what are his estimates of the net Exchequer cost or benefit of every £100 million gross per annum spent on the temporary short-time working compensation scheme, on a range of assumptions about benefit flow back; and if he will also state those assumptions.
§ Mr. Jim LesterI shall reply to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
EMPLOYEES IN EMPLOYMENT IN GREATER LONDON AT JUNE 1977 SIC 1968 Order of SIC Thousand All industries and services* I—XXVII 3,652.6 Index of production industries II—XXI 1,003.0 Manufacturing industries III—XIX 775.8 Service industries* XXII—XXVII 2,647.6 Agriculture, forestry, fishing † I 2.0 Mining and quarrying II 3.9 Food, drink and tobacco III 85.1 Coal and petroleum products IV 2.6 Chemicals and allied industries V 49.4 Metal manufacture VI 14.5 Mechanical engineering VII 77.8 Instrument engineering VIII 27.6 Electrical engineering IX 126.3 Shipbuilding and marine engineering X 3.9 Vehicles XI 57.2 Metal goods not elsewhere specified XII 57.9 Textiles XIII 10.1 Leather, leather goods and fur XIV 6.3 Clothing and footwear XV 48.7 Bricks, pottery, glass, cement, etc. XVI 12.3 Timber, furniture, etc. XVII 37.9 Paper, printing and publishing XVIII 118.6 Other manufacturing industries XIX 39.3 Construction XX 176.2 Gas, electricity and water XXI 47.0 Transport and communication XXII 392.5 Distributive trades XXIII 489.8 Insurance, banking, finance and business services XXIV 425.9 Professional and scientific services XXV 577.5 Miscellaneous services* XXVI 420.2 Public administration and defence ‡ XXVII 341.9 * Excludes private domestic service. † Estimates for agriculture are taken from the June censuses of agriculture and exclude a small number of employees of agricultural machinery contractors. In addition there are minor differences in analysis and consequently the full-time and part-time categories for agriculture are not strictly comparable with those for other industries. It should also be noted that changes in information collected in 1977 will have disturbed the year by year comparison of the figures for agriculture. ‡ These figures cover only a proportion of national and local government employees. They exclude those engaged in, for example, building, education and health, which are activities separately identified elsewhere in the classification. They include employees in police forces, fire brigades and other national and local government service which are not activities identified elsewhere. Members of HM Forces are excluded.