§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) how many people were made redundant in Scotland in each of the past five years and in each month of 1990;
(2) how many manufacturing jobs have been lost in each of the regions of Scotland since 1979; and what percentage this is of the manufacturing jobs in existence in 1979.
§ Mr. LangThere are no comprehensive statistics on redundancies. The number of redundancies involving 10 or more workers confirmed to the Department of Employment: the Training Agency as having occurred in Scotland since 1985 is set out in the table:
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Year Redundancies 1985 23,892 1986 32,882 1987 22,833 1988 14,311 1989 15,350 1990 January 336 February 1,428 March 1,968 April 667
Year Redundancies May1 1,573 June1 2,079 1 Confirmed redundancies in the latest 2 months are provisional and may be subject to revision. Information on employment for Scottish local authority regions is obtained from the censuses of employment. There was no such census undertaken in 1979 and the latest census results relate to 1987. The change in manufacturing employment in the Scottish regions between June 1978 and September 1987 is set out in the table:
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Change in employees in employment in manufacturing between June 1978 and September 1987 Region 1Thousands 2Per cent. Borders -2.0 -14 Central -12.2 -35 Dumfries and Galloway -0.9 -8 Fife -10.3 -24 Grampian -3.1 -8 Highland -3.7 -29 Lothian -12.7 -18 Strathclyde -136.7 -41 Tayside -14.5 -32 Orkney +0.2 +40
Region 1Thousands 2Per cent. Shetland -0.2 -17 Western Isles +0.3 +33 1 Change in manufacturing employment between June 1978 and September 1987. 2 Change as a percentage of manufacturing employment in June 1978. Source: Census of Employment.