§ Mr. SillarsTo ask the Secretary of State for Employmemt if he will publish a table showing employment in manufacturing industry by county and region for each year since 1979 and for each quarter month in 1988.
§ Mr. LeeFigures for the standard economic regions can be provided but employment statistics for smaller areas are available only for dates when censuses of employment are taken.
The available information for counties and the Scottish region and island areas, taken from the September 1981 and September 1984 censuses of employment, is given in table 1.
The information for standard economic regions is given in table 2.
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TABLE 1 Employees in employment1 in manufacturing industries (Divisions 2 to 4 of the Standard Industrial Classification 1980) Counties2 September 1981 Thousand September 1984 Thousand South East Bedfordshire 71.5 67.8 Berkshire 85.4 76.5 Buckinghamshire 65.7 66.8 East Sussex 36.4 32.7 Essex 140.4 119.5 Hampshire 153.3 146.7 Hertfordshire 132.4 118.1 Isle of Wight 9.0 8.8 Kent 118.3 103.5 Oxfordshire 47.6 43.8 Surrey 77.4 74.5 West Sussex 61.1 58.3 Greater London 684.6 569.0 East Anglia Cambridgeshire 60.7 68.2 Norfolk 63.3 63.2 Suffolk 61.9 58.3 421W
Counties2 September 1981 Thousand September 1984 Thousand South West Avon 94.9 89.2 Cornwall 23.6 22.3 Devon 68.9 69.1 Dorset 44.3 41.2 Gloucestershire 65.2 57.6 Somerset 46.0 45.6 Wiltshire 52.6 51.2 West Midlands Hereford and Worcester 67.9 64.3 Shropshire 32.0 33.0 Staffordshire 144.3 141.9 Warwickshire 61.6 56.3 West Midlands 494.8 413.7 East Midlands Derbyshire 133.2 122.2 Leicestershire 150.5 140.9 Lincolnshire 44.3 40.7 Northamptonshire 73.7 69.5 Nottinghamshire 131.5 115.1 Yorkshire and Humberside Humberside 92.1 81.9 North Yorkshire 53.5 49.7 South Yorkshire 158.6 122.4 West Yorkshire 274.6 230.8 North West Cheshire 116.7 105.9 Lancashire 182.5 153.6 Greater Manchester 345.8 291.3 Merseyside 154.7 119.8 North Cleveland 74.9 53.3 Cumbria 56.9 49.6 Durham 62.1 54.7 Northumberland 19.5 19.3 Tyne and Wear 126.0 99.0 Wales Clwyd 33.7 32.5 Dyfed 17.1 15.9 Gwent 52.8 46.1 Gwynedd 11.5 9.3 Mid-Glamorgan 52.5 44.7 Powys 7.0 6.9 South Glamorgan 26.6 25.2 West Glamorgan 36.9 28.8 Scotland (Region and Islands Areas) Borders 12.9 12.6 Central 31.1 22.8 Dumfries and Galloway 12.2 11.3 Fife 40.0 35.8 Grampian 36.8 35.2 Highland 12.4 10.2 Lothian 66.2 55.3 Strathclyde 249.8 215.4 Tayside 37.1 32.1 Orkney Islands 0.7 0.5 Shetland Islands 1.1 1.2 Western Isles 1.5 1.2 1 The figures exclude the self-employed. 2 The areas are defined in terms of ward boundaries as at 1981.
Table 2 Employees in employment1 in Manufacturing Industries (Divisions 2–4 of the Standard Industrial Classification 1980) by region Thousand Standard Region September March June 2 September 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1988 1988 South East 1,880 1,796 1,677 1,589 1,522 1,486 1,463 1,408 1,374 1,353 1,321 1,328 Greater London (included in South East) n.a. n.a. 681 637 598 569 556 526 514 506 477 487 East Anglia 209 197 185 181 181 190 199 205 211 213 218 220 South West 440 421 398 381 367 376 377 371 367 362 364 367 West Midlands 983 901 800 747 714 709 709 698 696 689 697 702 East Midlands 611 573 533 509 489 488 496 493 494 487 493 493 Yorkshire and Humberside 708 649 580 536 502 485 484 461 453 443 443 448 North West 970 894 803 740 692 671 655 628 609 600 600 601 North 411 374 340 314 287 276 279 266 262 261 261 262 Wales 317 278 239 223 214 212 211 205 211 210 213 218 Scotland 602 550 502 471 442 434 430 409 392 386 385 387 Great Britain 7,123 6,629 6,058 5,691 5,411 5,327 5,302 5,142 5,069 5,004 4,995 5,025 1 Excludes the self-employed. 2 Latest available. n.a. = Not available.