§ Mr. David Youngasked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the redundancies declared region by region and industry by industry in the last three years for which figures are available; and if he will express these totals as a percentage of the total employed in each industry.
§ Mr. GummerThe figures requested, for the years 1980, 1981 and 1982 are given in the following tables. They relate to redundancies, in groups of 10 or more, confirmed by the Manpower Services Commission as due to occur.
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SIC order Industry Number of redundancies (000s) Redundancies per 100 employees 1980 1981 *1982 1980 1981 *1982 XVI Bricks, Pottery, Glass, Cement etc. 16,387 13,223 10,820 6.66 6.12 5.24 XVII Timber, Furniture etc. 10,160 10,232 9,679 4.29 4.70 4.79 XVIII Paper, Printing and Publishing 15,705 19,540 11,637 2.91 3.83 2.36 XIX Other Manufacturing Industries 20,240 15,022 11,528 7.04 5.96 4.86 XX Construction 36,934 49,315 31,158 2.99 4.41 3.08 XXI Gas, Electricity and Water 427 1,670 1,080 0.12 0.49 0.33 XXII Transport and Communication 10,280 17,723 20,093 0.69 1.25 1.47 XXIII Distributive Trades 19,380 22,215 20,462 0.69 0.82 0.77 XXIV Insurance, Banking, Finance 3,081 4,698 4,924 0.24 0.36 0.38 XXV Professional and Scientific Services 4,371 6,854 7,010 0.12 0.19 0.19 XXVI Miscellaneous Services 11,702 15,643 14,358 0.46 0.62 0.57 XXVII Public Administration and Defence 1,678 9,326 6,901 0.11 0.61 0.46 All industries and services 493,766 532,030 380,260 2.21 2.51 1.84 * 1982 figures are provisional and exclude some 18 thousand redundancies not yet classified by industry.