§ Mr. Gouldasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for 1970, 1979 and the latest available date the numbers employed in the different sectors of the engineering and allied industries including motor cars and motor car components;
(2) whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for 1970, 1979 and the latest available date the numbers employed in (a) the steel industry, (b) coal mining, (c) other extractive industries and (d) the different sectors of manufacturing industry other than the engineering and allied industries and textiles and clothing;
(3) whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for 1970, 1979 and the latest available date the numbers employed in the different sectors of the textile industry and in clothing.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe following table gives, for June 1971 (1970 is not available), June 1979 and June 1984, the estimated number of employees in employment in Great Britain in each available class of the 1980 standard industrial classification (SIC) within the production industries.
More detailed analyses of employment estimates, by SIC group or activity heading, are available only from September 1981. The most recent figures, for December 1984, were published in table 1.4 of the labour market data section of the March 1985 issue of Employment Gazette, a copy of which is in the Library.
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Standard Industrial Classification 1980 Division or Class June 1971 June 1979 June 1984 Textiles 43 503.0 375.9 231.1 Manufacture of leather and leather goods 44 40.6 35.2 24.1 Footwear and clothing 45 472.8 397.7 270.4 Timber and wooden furniture 46 260.8 248.9 202.2 Manufacture of paper and paper products; printing and publishing 47 592.6 547.1 482.1 Processing of rubber and plastics 48 247.3 239.6 173.3 Other manufacturing 49 105.8 106.3 73.1
§ Mr. Spellerasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people are employed currently, or to the latest date known, in hotels, restaurants, leisure centres, public houses, wine bars and brasseries, clubs, cafes, sandwich and snackbars, coffee and tea rooms, catering at tourist attractions, university and college catering, school meals service, hospital catering service (including those employed in private hospitals), hospital domestic services, contract catering and cleaning services, catering departments in the public sector, catering departments in the private sector, armed forces, police forces, prison services and fire services, catering education and training and consultancy, marketing, promotion and inspection companies and boards.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe Department's employment estimates are classified according to the standard industrial classification. The following table presents estimates of the number of employees employed in the hotel and catering industries identified in that classification, and in contract catering and cleaning services.
Employees in Employment in Great Britain in December 1984 Industry Employees Restaurants, snackbars, cafes etc 181,400 Public houses and bars 248,600 Night clubs and licensed clubs 151,300 Canteens and messes 119,300 Hotel trade 237,700 Other tourists or short stay accommodation 24,500 Contract catering and cleaning services 210,300 The Department's statistics do not identify those engaged in catering occupations in other industries. Such information is available from the 1981 census of population and is published in table 13 of the census publication "Economic Activity: Great Britain" (CEN 81 EA), a copy of which is in the Library.
§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many men on Merseyside have been unemployed for more than 12 months.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe following information is available in the Library. It is provisionally estimated that there were 56,600 males in the Merseyside metropolitan county who had been unemployed for more than 12 months at 14 March 1985. The figure includes an estimate for those whose claims are not dealt with by computer.