§ Mr. Knoxasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people are currently employed in the textile industry in the Staffordshire, Moorlands constituency.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe available information on employment in local areas is from the September 1981 census of employment. Industrial breakdowns are not available for constituencies but in the area covered by the jobcentre areas of Leek, Longton, Cheadle, Biddulph, Burslem and Hanley, which corresponds most closely to the Staffordshire Moorlands constituency, there were just over 2,700 employees employed in the textile industry (class 43 of the standard industrial classification 1980) at September 1981.