§ 81. Mr. Duffyasked the Paymaster General how many jobs computing and microprocessor related activities account for in South Yorkshire; and how this compares with the national average, expressed as a percentage.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe latest available figures from the 1981 census of employment showed that just over 700 people were employed in South Yorkshire in industries associated with computing and microprocessor related activities which have, for the purposes of this question, been taken as office machinery (activity heading 3301), electronic data processing equipment (3302), telegraph and telephone apparatus and equipment (3441), electrical instruments and control systems (3442), radio and electronic capital goods (3443), gramaphome records and pre-recorded tapes (3452), active components and electronic sub-assemblies (3453), and electronic consumer goods and other electrical equipment (3454). This represents 0.2 per cent. of the 1981 figure of just over 376,000 employed in industries to this type in Great Britain.