§ Mr. Knoxasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were employed in the textile industry in the United Kingdom during each of the past 15 years.
§ Mr. GoldingThe following table gives the information available. The figures for June 1977 and April 1978 are from monthly employment series and are provisional. Figures for earlier dates are from the continuous series of employees in employment, which takes account of discontinuities present in earlier published data, and from censuses of employment, both of which provide figures only for June each year.
(Thousands) June 1964 778 June 1965 765 June 1966 757 June 1967 703 June 1968 690 June 1969 705 June 1970 678 June 1971 622 June 1972 597 June 1973 594 June 1974 585 June 1975 529 June 1976 513 June 1977 525 April 1978 498