§ Mr. Gwynoro Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many jobs have been created in Carmarthenshire since June 1970, and how many people have been made redundant, giving figures under each employment classification.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithAccurate figures for jobs created are not available owing to the lack of information on the service sector, in which approximately half of the insured employees of Carmarthenshire work, and to the discontinuing of industrial development certificate control in development areas in July 1972.
Redundancies involving the following numbers of workpeople have been recorded by my Department as due to occur in Carmarthenshire during the period 1st July 1970 to 31st May 1973:
Main Industry Groups Numbers Involved Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing 5 Mining and Quarrying 40 Food, Drink and Tobacco 30 Metal Manufacture 270 Mechanical Engineering 430 Instrument Engineering 240 Vehicles 230 Other Metal Goods 180 Textiles 200 Clothing and Footwear 180 Bricks, Pottery, Glass, Cement, etc. 30 Paper, Printing and Publishing 10 Other Manufacturing Industries 70 Construction 190 Gas, Electricity and Water 80 Transport and Communication 110 Distributive Trades 20 TOTAL 2, 315