§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the industrial breakdown of payments from the redundancy fund for 1979 and 1980; and if he will compare the percentage of payments to private sector employees in relation to their overall numbers with that for public sector employees.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe number of statutory redundancy payments made in 1979 and 1980, analysed by industry order number, is as follows. The figures cannot be further broken down to distinguish the public and private sectors.
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SIC Order Number and Industries 1979 1980 I Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing 3,316 4,670 II Mining and Quarrying 4,552 3,350 III Food, Drink and Tobacco 12,476 16,170 IV Coal and Petroleum Products 694 834 V Chemicals and Allied Industries 5,716 14,682 VI Metal Manufacture 17,131 46,447 VII Mechanical Engineering 25,734 50,469 VIII Instrument Engineering 1,761 6,152 IX Electrical Engineering 14,124 29,038 X Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering 8,289 11,446 XI Vehicles 11,883 31,099 XII Metal Goods not elsewhere specified 9,425 21,905 XIII Textiles 14,533 35,730 XIV Leather, Leather Goods and Fur 2,038 2,241 XV Clothing and Footwear 5,809 18,715 XVI Bricks, Pottery, Glass, Cement etc. 4,300 12,263 XVII Timber, Furniture etc. 3,847 9,611 XVIII Paper, Printing and Publishing 6,807 15,653 XIX Other Manufacturing Industries 8,592 16,355 XX Construction 29,042 45,108 XXI Gas, Electricity and Water 1,748 2,355 XXII Transport and Communication 10,497 17,342 XXIII Distributive Trades 28,533 38,412 XXIV Insurance, Banking, Finance and Business Services 3,466 6,286 XXV Professional and Scientific Services 4,207 6,236 XXVI Miscellaneous Services 12,624 20,873 XXVII Public Administration and Defence 2,131 7,046 Total 253,275 489,488
SIC Order Number and Industries 1979 1980 Payments equivalent to statutory payments made to crown and National Health Service employees 1,352 1,680 Total 254,627 491,168