§ Mr. Formanasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for each present member State of the EEC the percentage increase or decrease in those employed in manufacturing industry since 1950.
§ Mr. John GrantThe attached table gives percentage changes in the size of the civilian labour force employed in manufacturing from 1960, the earliest
600Wemployers to assist them in adapting plant and machinery to enable disabled persons to work them;
(2) what is the number of registered disabled people now known to his Department to be unemployed in the Bury St. Edmunds, Newmarket and Haverhill areas of Suffolk; and how this compares with the numbers of disabled out of work at the same date in each of the previous five years.
§ Mr. John GrantI am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that local figures of unemployment among registered disabled people are available only for the three years preceding the current year. The required information in respect of these periods is as follows:
common date for which data are available, to 1974. It is regretted that comparative data are not available for Denmark or Luxembourg.
CHANGES IN THE SIZE OF THE CIVILIAN LABOUR FORCE EMPLOYED IN MANUFACTURING IN EACH MEMBER COUNTRY OF THE EEC FROM 1960 TO 19741 Country Percentage Change Belgium … … +2.4 Denmark … … NA France … … +13.82 Germany … … +6.92 Ireland … … +29.1 Italy … … +14.8 Luxembourg … … NA Netherlands … … - 9.92 United Kingdom … … -6.12 1 Calculated from similar points in each year or from annual averages. Usually no distinction is made between persons employed full time and those working less than full time. 2 Based on provisional figures for 1974. NA Not available. Source: ILO Year Books of Labour Statistics.