§ Mr. Gordon Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is his estimate of numbers of employees engaged in 1977 in the chemical industry, as defined in orders IV and V of the standard industrial classification, in Scotland, England and Wales; and if he will express the figures in percentage terms.
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§ Mr. Golding:The following table gives the numbers of employees in employment at December 1977 in the orders specified expressed as percentages of those in all industries and services.
Employees in employment (000's) Percentage of all industries and services Scotland … 31.8 1.5 England … 413.5 2.2 Wales … 22.3 2.2 These figures are provisional and are subject to revision when the results of the June 1977 census of employment become available.