§ Mr. Parryasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report the number of persons employed in the tobacco industry at the latest available date and in May 1979, respectively.
§ Mr. AlisonAt September 1982, the latest date for which the information is available, the provisional number of employees in employment in the United Kingdom in the tobacco industry (minimum list heading 240 of the 1968 standard industrial classification) was 30,900. The corresponding number at May 1979 was 37,100.