§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Employment what were the percentages for total employment in manufacturing in the United Kingdom for each year since 1976.
§ Mr. Jim Lester[pursuant to his reply, 23 May 1980, c. 435]: Esitmates of the total numbers of employees in employment in the United Kingdom are available quarterly and the latest are for December 1979. In the following table the numbers of employees in manufacturing
490W1980 about the number of disablement resettlement officers and the ratio of cases per officer is only available by employment service division areas and is set out in table B. The ratio of cases is calculated by dividing the number of DROs into the number of disabled people seeking work, both registered and unregistered.
industries are expressed as percentages of those in all industries and services at December each year from 1976.
per cent December 1976 32.4 December 1977* 32.3 December 1978* 31.7 December 1979* 31.1 *Provisional