§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of state for Employment whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing employment in each branch of the textile industry each year since 1970.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe following table gives the estimated numbers of employees in employment in the textiles industries in Great Britain at June each year from 1970: 111W
Thousands Minimum List heading of the Standard Industrial Classification, 1968 June 1970 June 1971 June 1972 June 1973 June 1974 June 1975 June 1976 June 1977 June 1978 June 1979* June 1980* Production of man-made fibres (MLH 411) 41 38 .4 35.7 35.7 38.7 34.0 34.1 31.7 29.7 29.7 25.3 Spinning and doubling on the cotton and flax systems (MLH 412) 77 71.1 63.5 61.7 59.5 52.9 51.2 49.3 44.3 41.1 36.9 Weaving of cotton, linen and man-made fibres (MLH 413) 60 54.3 49.0 48.8 47.1 43.6 40.0 39.0 37.2 36.6 31.9 Woollen and worsted (MLH 414) 134 113.2 107.0 106.7 101.1 88.0 81.6 82.4 78.3 74.5 64.8 Jute (MLH 415) 12 9.8 9.4 9.0 9.4 8.1 7.6 7.3 6.7 6.8 5.8 Rope, twine and net (MLH 416) 8 7.4 7.2 6.6 7.1 6.5 5.6 6.5 5.8 5.7 5.0 Hosiery and other knitted goods (MLH 417) 129 127.4 127.5 127.0 124.9 115.0 113.8 114.9 113.0 111.0 102.3 Lace (MLH 418) 7 5.4 5.5 5.1 5.1 4.4 4.9 5.2 5.3 5.2 4.8 Carpets (MLH 419) 44 41.9 43.1 43.0 42.5 37.4 35.6 35.2 32.4 31.9 25.7 Narrow fabrics (not more than 30 cm wide) (MLH 421) 15 14.0 13.6 14.0 14.2 12.6 12.8 13.6 14.1 13.8 12.5 Made-up textiles (MLH 422) 23 23.9 22.8 23.2 22.5 21.5 22.2 22.0 21.2 21.7 20.0 Textile finishing (MLH 423) 55 50.9 50.6 51.4 49.8 45.0 46.2 47.3 46.8 45.9 42.2 Other textile industries (MLH 429) 29 23.6 23.0 22.9 24.1 24.8 24.0 25.7 24.5 23.8 21.7 Total, textiles industries (Order XIII) 633 581.2 558.0 555.0 545.9 493.9 479.7 480.2 459.2 447.7 398.9 * provisional Note: The figures for June 1970, originally calculated by different methods, have been revised to be comparable with those for later dates but are available only rounded to the nearest thousand.