HC Deb 26 May 1994 vol 244 c287W
Mr. Barry Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is his estimate of the number of people employed in the United Kingdom aerospace industry.

Miss Widdecombe

The latest reliable information is from the 1991 census of employment. In September 1991, there were 147,400 jobs in Great Britain in the aerospace equipment manufacturing and repairing industry—activity heading 3640 of the 1980 standard industrial classification.