§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will bring up to date the information on loss of employment in his reply, dated 22 July 1982, Official Report, c. 263; and if he will express the total in each case as a percentage of the numbers employed in the industry in May 1979.
§ Mr. AlisonThe following table gives the provisional decreases in numerical and percentage terms between May 1979 and December 1982. The figures on which the decreases are based are not adjusted for seasonal variations.
Employees in employment Great Britain Order of the 1968 Decrease standard industrial classification Numerical Percentage II Mining and quarrying 25,200 7.3 III Food, drink and tobacco 81,400 12.1 IV Coal and petroleum products 13,000 35.1 V Chemicals and allied industries 68,000 15.4 VI Metal manufacture 168,000 37.8 VII Mechanical engineering 223,600 24.4 VIII Instrument engineering 23,000 15.1 IX Electrical engineering 111,600 14.8 X Shipbuilding and marine engineering 32,400 19.3 XI Vehicles 203,700 27.8 XII Metal goods not elsewhere specified 125,500 23.5 XIII Textiles 148,400 33.7 XIV Leather, leather goods and fur 9,800 26.5 XV Clothing and footwear 97,700 27.8 XVI Bricks, pottery, glass, cement, etc. 63,200 24.5 XVII Timber, furniture, etc. 47,000 18.8 XVIII Paper, printing and publishing 57,800 10.7 XIX Other manufacturing industries 85,900 27.3 XX Construction 235,800 19.0 XXI Gas, electricity and water 9,900 2.9