§ Mr. Wilkinsonasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many employees were declared redundant in the wool textile and engineering industries, respectively, in the Bradford-Shipley area for each year from 1964 to 1970, inclusive.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithComprehensive figures are not available, but the following numbers of redundancies were recorded as due to occur in the wool textile and engineering industries in the Bradford/Shipley area:
Wool Textiles Engineering 1966 … … 1,000 100 1967 … … 750 160 1968 … … 1,500 540 1969 … … 670 920 1970 … … 2,200 600 I regret that comparable information is not available for 1964 and 1965.
§ Mr. Wilkinsonasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many factories were closed in the engineering and wool textile industry, respectively, in each year from 1964 to 1970, inclusive, in the Bradford/Shipley area.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithComprehensive figures are not available but the following numbers of closures were recorded by my Department in the Bradford/Shipley area in the wool textile and engineering industries:
Wool Textiles Engineering 1964 … … 5 — 1965 … … 4 1 1966 … … 4 1 1967 … … 9 1 1968 … … 16 3 1969 … … 8 2 1970 … … 15 3