HC Deb 27 July 1998 vol 317 c51W
Mr. Hancock

To ask the President of the. Board of Trade how many people were employed by the United Kingdom aerospace industry each year for the past five years. [51932]

Mr. Battle

On the basis used by the Office for National Statistics, the number of people employed in the UK aerospace industry in each of the five years from 1992 are as follows:

Year Number
1992 149,000
1993 126,000
1994 115,000
1995 109,000
1996 104,000

Source:

Office for National Statistics (Annual Census of Production)

Mr. Hancock

To ask the President of the Board of Trade how many people within the Portsmouth area were employed by the United Kingdom aerospace industry in each of the last five years. [51930]

Mr. Battle

This information is not available. Although the Office for National Statistics collects data on employment in aerospace businesses in Portsmouth as part of the Annual Employment Survey and Annual Census of Production, the figures cannot be released because they would identify particulars of an individual undertaking, which are confidential under Section 9 of the Statistics of Trade Act 1947.