§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the percentage of total employment by industry and what was the percentage change in employment by industry, by year for the period 1979 to 1990 and 1991 to date, for the Doncaster area classified by: men, women, young persons and ethnic minorities.
Employees in employment in coal mining and manufacturing in the Doncaster travel-to-work area September 1981 September 1989 Number (000's) Proportion1 (per cent.) Number (000's) Proportion1 (per cent.) Deep coal mines 16.4 17.8 6.0 6.9 Manufacturing 25.3 27.5 19.9 22.8 1Employees in Activity Heading 1113 (deep coal mines) and Divisions 2 to 4 (manufacturing industries) of the Standard Industrial Classification 1980, as a percentage of all employees in the travel-to-work area.
§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what were the levels of redundancies., by industry, in the Doncaster area by year for the period 1979 to 1990 and 1991 to date, classified by men, women, young persons and ethnic minorities.
§ Mr. ForthInformation on the number of redundancies confirmed as having occurred is given in the tables. Data
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Confirmed redundancies in Yorkshire and Humbcrside region (1979–83) and Doncaster area (1983)—SIC 1968 Yorkshire and Humberside region Doncaster 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1983 1. Agriculture, Forest and Fish 0 136 26 63 103 0 2. Mining and Quarrying 220 191 1,237 1,477 4,246 632 3. Food, Drink and Tobacco 1,633 2,310 2,227 2,691 1,724 207 4. Coal and Petrol Products 0 126 962 106 151 0 5. Chemicals and Allied 173 1,486 2,588 711 714 0 6. Metal Manufacture 1,736 9,130 14,405 6,796 5,841 62 7. Mechanical Engineering 2,805 4,717 6,660 6,240 5,299 317 8. Instrument Engineering 27 256 358 123 111 0 9. Electrical Engineering 173 1,931 2,058 893 799 114 10. Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering 342 120 198 85 326 17 11. Vehicles 36 3,129 4,018 3,601 1,988 601 12. Metal Goods (N.E.S.) 700 3,856 5,316 2,714 2,971 187 13. Textiles 3,114 9,254 4,348 5,883 2,484 232 14. Leather and Fur etc. 773 16 180 137 63 0 15. Clothing and Footwear 1,436 2,904 3,374 2,780 499 0 16. Bricks, Pottery, etc. 896 2,430 1,515 981 1,924 201 17. Timber, Furniture, etc. 405 992 1,251 1,452 644 0 18. Paper, Printing, etc. 321 407 1,356 595 785 185 19. Other Manufacturing Industries 269 949 745 687 603 70 20. Construction 1,130 2,967 3,460 759 1,073 37 21. Gas, Electricity, Water 0 9 50 527 427 15 22. Transport and Communication 358 831 1,577 1,030 885 119 23. Distributive Trades 1,018 1,680 2,583 2,826 2,111 27 24. Insurance, Banking, etc. 41 83 248 300 98 0 25. Professional and Scientific Services 0 72 215 497 446 99 26. Miscellaneous Services 198 512 1,729 1,586 1,228 11 27. Public Administration, Defence 34 385 418 417 264 59 Total 17,838 50,879 63,102 45,957 37,807 3,192
Mr. JacksonInformation for employees in employment according to industry by district and by travel-to-work area is available only from the censuses of employment for 1981, 1984, 1987 and 1989. This can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the House of Commons Library. Separate data for young persons and ethnic minorities are not available.
§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what estimate he has of the number of people employed in(a) coal mining and (b) manufacturing in the Doncaster travel-to-work area; what percentage these are of the total employed; and what the comparable figures were in 1979.
Mr. JacksonInformation for employees in employment by travel-to-work area is available only from the periodic censuses of employment. The earliest and most recent estimates are from censuses taken in 1981 and 1989 and are given in the table.
are available for Doncaster only for the period 1983 to date. Data given for 1979–82 are for the Yorkshire and Humberside region. Information is not available to identify separately men, women, young persons and ethnic minorities. I refer the hon. Gentleman to an article on official statistics on redundancies that appeared in the September 1990 edition of Employment Gazette.
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Confirmed redundancies in the Doncaster area 1984–90 SIC 1980 Industry SIC 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 Agriculture 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Energy and water 1 188 5,181 1,117 1,008 278 271 0 Extraction of minerals 2 138 191 62 10 512 25 0 Metal goods 3 36 406 335 1,145 262 386 69 Other manufacturers 4 280 124 387 195 0 77 14 Construction 5 9 57 166 0 14 60 10 Distributive trades 6 56 152 138 104 53 18 0 Transport and communications 7 140 0 18 18 29 0 29 Insurance, banking etc. 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Other services 9 0 0 25 0 22 0 52 Total 847 6,111 2,248 2,480 1,170 837 174
Confirmed redundancies in the Doncaster area 1991 Industry SIC January February March1 April1 Agriculture 0 0 0 0 0 Energy and water 1 0 0 0 0 Extraction of minerals 2 0 298 0 0 Metal goods 3 22 18 0 0 Other manufacturers 4 72 0 0 0 Construction 5 0 0 0 0 Distributive trades 6 0 0 22 0 Transport and communications 7 0 0 0 0 Insurance, banking etc. 8 0 0 0 0 Other services 9 0 0 29 0 Total 94 316 51 0 1 Provisional and subject to revision.
§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what information he has, by year, on the number of individuals covered by the redundant mineworkers payments scheme who have left the Doncaster travel-to-work area unemployment register since the commencement of the scheme.
Mr. JacksonQuestions on operational matters in the Employment Service executive agency are the responsibility of Mike Fogden, the agency's chief executive, to whom I have referred this question for reply.
§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number and percentages of(a) male unemployed and (b) female unemployed in the Doncaster area as at 1 April in each year from 1979 to 1991.
Mr. JacksonThe available information, for the Doncaster travel-to-work area, can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the House of Commons Library.
§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of persons employed by sex in each standard category of employment in the Doncaster area for 1 April in each year from 1979 to 1991.
Mr. JacksonInformation for employees in employment according to industry by district and by travel-to-work area is available only from the censuses of employment held in September of 1981, 1984, 1987 and 1989. This can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the House of Commons Library.