§ 36. Mr. Amessasked the Paymaster General if he will list the number of people in Basildon employed in each of the last five years.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkEmployment statistics for local areas are obtained from censuses of employment taken triennially since 1978. The latest available figures from the 1981 census of employment show that just over 52,000 people were employed in Basildon at that time, compared with a total of nearly 46,000 in 1978.