HC Deb 13 January 2003 vol 397 c425W
Mr. Dodds

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many jobs were(a) created and (b) lost in Northern Ireland in 2002. [90163]

Mr. Pearson

An exact figure for the number of jobs created and lost in the period requested is not available. However, the most recent data from the Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) provides an estimate of the net change in employee jobs between September 2001 and September 2002. QES figures show that the net change in the employee job level in Northern Ireland during that period was + 6,850 (+ 1.1 per cent.).

Over the year to 31 December 2002, there were 4,354 redundancies in Northern Ireland confirmed to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment.