HC Deb 26 July 1983 vol 46 cc359-60W
Mr. Stuart Holland

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were (a)engaged directly in the manufacture of cycles and cycle accessories and (b) employed in the retailing of cycles and cycle accessories in 1982 in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Gummer

The Department's employment statistics are analysed according to minimum list headings of the 1968 standard industrial classification. In June 1982, the provisional number of employees in employment in the manufacture of motor cycles, tricycles and pedal cycles—MLH 382—in the United Kingdom was 7,600.

The classification does not separately distinguish the retailing part of the business.