HL Deb 14 April 1986 vol 473 cc533-4WA
Lord O'Hagan

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What is the number of new jobs created in each

TOTAL EMPLOYMENT: EC COUNTRIES
1979–80 Thousand per cent. 1980–81 Thousand per cent. 1981–82 Thousand per cent. 1982–83 Thousand per cent. 1983–84 Thousand per cent.
United Kingdom -69 -0.3 -983 -3.9 -429 -1.8 -303 -1.3 +393 +1.7
Germany +281 +1.1 -184 -0.7 -435 -1.7 -378 -1.5 +15 +0.1
France +22 +0.1 -113 -0.5 +31 +0.1 -105 -0.5 -218 -1.0
Italy +279 +1.4 +56 +0.3 -50 -0.2 +46 +0.2 +94 +0.4
Netherlands +154 +3.1 +32 +0.6 -19 -0.4 -53 -1.0 +3 +0.1
Belgium -10 -0.3 -76 -2.0 -51 -1.4 -38 -1.0 +11* -0.3*
Luxembourg +2 +1.0 0 -0.1 0 +0.1 -1 -0.8 +1 +0.4
Ireland +11 +1.0 -10 -0.9 +2 +0.2 -23 -2.0 -15 -1.3
Denmark -40 -1.6 -34 -1.4 +6 +0.2 +13 +0.5 +58* +2.3*
Greece +45 +1.3 +173* +4.9* -38* -1.0* +17* +0.5* -8* -0.2*
Spain† -583 -4.9 -323 -2.9 -55 -0.5 -71 -0.7 -420 -3.9
Portugal† +72 +1.9 +45 +1.1 -10 -0.3 +178 +4.5 -64 -1.5
Notes: † Figures for Spain and Portugal up to 1982–83 relate to civilian employment (ie excluding Armed Forces).
* Estimated by the Statistical Office of the European Communities (SOEC).
Source: SOEC 'Employment and Unemployment', supplemented for UK, Germany, France, and Italy by OECD 'Quarterly Labour Force Statistics'.

member state of the EC each year since 1979: and what are these figures as percentages of the total workforce of each member state.

The Secretary of State for Employment (Lord Young of Graffham)

The available information is given in the following table, which shows changes in total employment in each of the twelve current EC member states in each year since 1979 in absolute and percentage terms.