§ Miss Joan Lestorasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will set out job losses on a numerical and percentage basis in the Slough and Reading travel-towork areas broken down by the principal industries involved for each year since 1979.
§ Mr. GummerI regret that the information is not available. The number of net job losses or gains may be calculated by comparing employment figures at different dates, but these are not available for areas below regional level from censuses of employment. Information is418W available from the June 1978 census, but local results of the following census—for September 1981—are not yet ready.