§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of people employed in the steel industry in Scotland in 1964: and what is the number currently employed.
§ Mr. GoldingThe latest information about employment in the steel industry in Scotland is for June 1975. The figures in the following table are for Iron and Steel (general) and Steel Tubes (Minimum List Headings 311 and 312 of the Standard Industrial Classification).
June 1964 … … 30,900 June 1966 (a) … … 33,000 June 1966 (b) … … 31,900 June 1971 (a) … … 28,500 June 1971 (b) … … 30,500 June 1975 … … 29,500 Between June 1966 and June 1967 the industrial classification of many establishments were corrected. The estimates for June 1966 are shown (a) excluding and (b) including the effects of reclassifications. The estimates for June 1971 (a) and earlier dates were derived mainly from counts of national insurance cards and are not comparable with those for June 1971 (b) and later dates which are based on censuses of employment.
More up-to-date quarterly provisional estimates are made for the somewhat larger metal manufacturing group of industries, and in these employment decreased from 43,800 in June 1975 to 38,900 in March 1977.