HC Deb 19 October 1994 vol 248 cc272-3W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is his assessment of the effects of the measures proposed in annex 2 of "Employment: The Challenge for the Nation". Cmnd. 9474 on output and employment in manufacturing industry; and if he will publish a table showing manufacturing output and the number of full-time male and female workers employed in manufacturing in 1973, 1979, 1984 and at the latest available date.

Mr. Oppenheim

An assessment of Government policies, including those over the last few years, is set out in "Competitiveness: Helping Business to Win". Cmnd. 2563. Figures for manufacturing output and full-time employees in employment are set out in the following table:

Output and employees in employment in manufacturing
Index of output (seasonally adjusted 1990 = 100) Male full-time employees in (thousands) Great Britian seasonally unadjusted Female full-time employees in employment (thousands) Great Britian seasonally unadjusted
1973 94.6 — 11,794
1979 90.6 — 11,617
1984 82.2 23,709 11,225
August 1994 98.9 12,906 11,002
Notes:
1 June figures.
2September 1984, the earliest available figure.
—Unavailable.