§ Mr. Lathamasked the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of people covered by the temporary short-time working compensation scheme in Leicestershire at the latest convenient date; and how many of them were employed in (a) the hosiery and knitwear industry, (b) shoe manufacturing and (c) the engineering industry.
§ Mr. AlisonThe number of workers sharing short time to save 1,548 potentially redundant jobs for which 453W reimbursement was claimed under the temporary short-time working compensation scheme in June 1982 in Leicestershire was 3,545. Statistics in the form requested are not available for the individual sectors referred to in parts (a) and (b) of the question. The following table shows the figures for the Standard Industrial Classification groups containing those sectors.
1 2 3 Industry Number of potentially redundant jobs for which reimubursement for support was claimed in June 1982 Number of workers sharing short-time working to save the jobs shown in column 2 Textiles (including hosiery and knitwear industry) 104 183 Clothing and Footwear 151 210 In the engineering industry support is being claimed only from the mechancial engineering sector as follows:—
1 2 3 Industry Number of potentially redundant jobs for which reimubursement for support was claimed in June 1982 Number of workers sharing short-time working to save the jobs shown in column 2 Mechanical Engineering 970 2,400