§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the full-time job equivalent, assuming a 40-hour week, of the hours of overtime worked in each sector of manufacturing industry at
Hours of overtime worked by operatives: week-ended 13th March 1976 (1) Column (1) divided by 40 (2) Unemployed March 1976 (3) Food, drink and tobacco … … … 1,668,800 41,700 40,240 Coal and petroleum product … … … 93,500 2,300 2,128 Chemicals and allied industries … … … 669,200 16,700 15,965 Metal manufacture … … … 1,056,100 26,400 26,036 Mechanical engineering … … … 2,098,800 52,500 41,477 Instrument engineering … … … 167,100 4,200 4,657 Electrical engineering … … … 981,000 24,500 30,741 Shipbuilding and marine engineering … … 614,500 15,400 8,681 Vehicles … … … 1,368,800 34,200 31,166 Metal goods not elsewhere specified … … … 1,039,100 26,000 37,970 Textiles … … … 792,400 19,800 27,252 Leather, leather goods and fur … … … 72,900 1,800 3,592 Clothing and footwear … … … 122,000 3,100 20,642 Bricks, pottery, glass, cement, etc. … … … 732,500 18,300 14,050 Timber, furniture, etc. … … … 546,100 13,700 14,347 Paper, printing and publishing … … … 1,033,300 25,800 19,945 Other manufacturing industries … … … 596,100 14,900 17,863 Total, all manufactirng industries … … 13,652,100 341,300 356,752