§ Mr. MacFarquharasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) taking the Standard Industrial Classification, broken down under subheads, for the last 12-month period for which figures are available, for Great Britain, what was the amount of short-time working in each category:
(2) taking the Standard Industrial
SHORT-TIME AND OVERTIME WORKED BY OPERATIVES IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES IN GREAT BRITAIN: WEEK ENDED 17TH MAY 1975 (thousands) Estimated hours of overtime worked Estimated hours lost by operatives on short-time Food, drink and tobacco … … … … 1,652.1 133.9 Coal and petroleum products … … … … 72.1 0.7 Chemical and allied industries … … … … 585.5 51.3 Metal manufacture … … … … 1,036.5 187.7 Mechanical engineering … … … … 2,482.0 138.9 Instrument engineering … … … … 176.5 7.8 Electrical engineering … … … … 1,069.8 396.9 Shipbuilding and marine engineering … … … … 781.4 1.1 Vehicles … … … … 1,071.1 816.2 Metal goods not elsewhere specified … … … … 1,105.9 243.2 Textiles … … … … 747.3 261.9 Leather, leather goods and fur … … … … 76.2 8.1 Clothing and footwear … … … … 130.9 215.1 Bricks, pottery, glass, cement, etc. … … … … 660.7 105.7 Timber, furniture, etc. … … … … 549.3 51.3 Paper, printing and publishing … … … … 735.2 179.5 Other manufacturing industries … … … … 471.5 204.0 Total, all manufacturing industries … … … … 13,415.4 2,997.9 The figures are provisional.