§ Mr. Charles Morrisonasked the Minister of Technology if he will give the total numbers employed in each of the industries for which he is sponsor, indicating the number of graduates in each industry.
§ Mr. CousinsNumbers in employment at June 1964, in establishments in the United Kingdom classified to the industries sponsored by the Ministry of Technology were as follows:
There are no separate official data on employment related to computers since these are classified as a product of the electronics industry.
Telegraph and Telephone Apparatus 75,500 Radio and Other Electronic Apparatus 295,300 Metal-Working Machine Tools 87,800 Pending the results of the survey now being carried out in respect of January, 1965, the latest official data on employment of qualified scientists and technologists are for January, 1962. These statistics cover Great Britain only.
Employment of qualified scientists and technologists in establishments with 100 or more employees in the telegraph and telephone apparatus and the radio and other electronic apparatus industries together was 7,484.
Employment of qualified scientists and technologists in the machine tool industry is not separately distinguished under the general heading of the mechanical engineering industries, but the Machine Tool Trades Association has estimated that its members employed about 1,000 in 1963.