§ Mr. Ernie Rossasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what has been the total number of jobs lost in Dundee in engineering since 1979; and if he will provide figures for the subgroups (a)mechanical, (b) instrument, (c) electrical, (d) shipbuilding and (e) marine engineering.
§ Mr. Alexander FletcherComprehensive information on job losses is not available. The total number of redundancies notified to MSC Scotland as due to occur in the specified categories in Dundee over the period between January 1979 and October 1982 was as follows:
Engineering and allied industries Numbers Mechanical engineering 161 Instrument engineering 1,124 Electrical engineering 725 Shipbuilding and marine engineering 1,143 Total 3,201 Note: Separate figures for marine engineering are not available and these have been included in the total for shipbuilding; the figures exclude redundancies involving fewer than 10 workers.