§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing redundancies for the period from May 1979 to date involving 10 or more persons as due to occur in Great Britain in each order of the Standard Industrial Classification.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyThe available information is given in the following table:
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Confirmed redundancies* by industry: May 1979 to June 1985†: Great Britain Industry‡ (SIC 1980) Class Number of Redundancies (thousands) Agriculture, forestry and fishing 01–03 4.7 Coal extraction and coke 11–12 38.4 Mineral oil and natural gas extraction 13 1.8 Mineral oil processing 14 3.3 Nuclear fuel production 15 2.4 Gas, electricity and water 16–17 7.6 Extraction of other minerals and ores 21–23 2.7 Metal manufacture 22 143.5 Manufacture of non-metallic products 24 58.9 Chemical industry 25 56.3 Production of man-made fibres 26 15.0 Shipbuilding and repairing 30 34.0 Manufacture of metal goods 31 135.3 Mechanical engineering 32 271.3 Manufacture of office machinery etc. 33 18.1 Electrical and electronic engineering 34 148.4 Manufacture of motor vehicles 35 139.8 Manufacture of aerospace and other transport equipment 36 45.3 Instrument engineering 37 19.5 Food drink and tobacco 41–42 131.5 Textiles 43 106.2 Leather, footwear and clothing 44–45 103.4 Timber and furniture 46 40.1 Paper, printing and publishing 47 71.6 Other manufacturing industries 48–49 74.8 Construction 50 178.4 Wholesale distribution 61–63 38.5 Retail distribution 64–65 85.9 Hotel and catering 66 25.9 Repair of consumer goods and vehicles 67 5.1 Transport 71–77 53.9 Telecommunications 79 22.1 Insurance, banking, finance etc. 81–85 35.2 Public administration and defence 91–94 54.4 Medical and other health services 95 12.7 Other services (not elsewhere specified) 99–99,00 33.8 All industries and services 2,219.7 * Confirmed by the Manpower Services Commission as due to occur and based on notifications of impending redundancies involving ten or more workers. † Includes provisional figures for May and June 1985. ‡ Figures for 1979 to 1983 are estimated because of the change in the industrial classification system made in January 1984.