§ Miss Joan Lestorasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a list of industrial training boards to be abolished together with the number of women as a percentage of the total work force in each of the industries concerned.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonUp-to-date figures are not available about the number of female employees as a percentage of the total work force in industries in scope to the 16 industrial training boards to be abolished. However, the following table gives the most recent figures obtainable, drawn from the boards' annual reports, and supplemented where possible by information obtained direct from boards.
ITB Number of female employees in industries in scope Total work force of industries in scope Female employees as a percentage of total work force of industries in scope per cent. Air 44,00 170,000 26 Carpet 13,270 29,599 45 Ceramics 59,507 291,682 20 Chemical 118,000 438,000 27 Cotton 55,165 131,838 42 Distributive 921,000 1,518,000 61 Food 354,301 864,150 41 Footwear 43,133 87,706 49 Furniture 38,137 177,986 21 Iron and Steel 9,019 175,401 5 Knitting 70,697 106,004 67 Man-made Fibres 3,084 24,194 13 Paper 44,498 155,443 29 Printing 110,685 334,327 33 Shipbuilding 4,504 73,739 6 Wool 29,525 72,719 41 Total 1,918,525 4,650,788 41