§ Mr. WrayTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many(a) full-time and (b) part-time jobs were created in the manufacturing industry for each year since 1975.
§ Mr. LangFigures are available only for full-time jobs from the regional data system which contains employment data for manufacturing units employing 10 or more people. The figures are the annual increases in number of jobs for the units which had increases. The figures after 1984 are likely to be under-estimates pending an up-date of the system using census of employment data for 1987.
Year New Jobs (000's) 1975 47.7 1976 40.8 1977 41.5 1978 37.3 1979 27.7 1980 18.4 1981 27.2 1982 20.8 1983 22.9 1984 25.8 1985 26.1 1986 23.4 1987 17.0