§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people have been employed in each of the industrial sector classifications in the West Midlands in each year since 1960.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonRegional employment estimates by each order of the 1968 Standard Industrial Classification are available on a comparable basis from June 1965. Information for each June from 1965 to 1975 was published in the August 1976 issue of theEmployment Gazette, page 839 et seq. The following table gives corresponding information for 1976,1977 and 1978 for the West Midlands region. It also gives provisional estimates for Orders, or groups of orders for 1979 and 1980.
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Standard Industrial Classification 1968 June 1976 June 1977 June 1978 June 1979 June 1980 Mechanical engineering 123 121 121 564 535 Instrument engineering 6 7 7 Electrical engineering 101 102 103 Shipbuilding and marine engineering 3 3 3 Vehicles 178 180 181 Metal goods not elsewhere specified 165 168 170 Textiles 24 24 23 46 42 Leather, leather goods and fur 4 5 5 Clothing and footwear 17 18 18 Bricks, pottery, glass, cement, etc. 69 69 65 164 156 Timber, furniture, etc. 19 18 18 Paper, printing and publishing 30 30 31 Other manufacturing industries 48 48 48 Construction 107 103 104 105 103 Gas, electricity and water 30 29 29 30 30 Transport and communication 97 98 98 99 100 Distributive trades 234 236 236 239 239 Insurance, banking, finance and business services 72 76 84 589 591 Professional and scientific services 308 304 303 Miscellaneous services 181 182 185 Public administration and defence 121 125 130 130 129 Total, all industries and services 2,186 2,202 2,214 2,212 2,161