§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Paymaster General if he will publish a table showing the numbers and percentages of jobs lost, or gained, in Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom as a whole between June 1979 and June 1986, or the latest month for which figures are available, in (a) all industries (b) all manufacturing industries, (c) all service industries, (d) shipbuilding and repairing (e) metal goods engineering and vehicles, (f) mechanical engineering (g) electrical electronic engineering and instrument engineering, (h) health, education and personal social services, (i) retail distribution (j) banking, insurance and financial.
§ Mr. Lee[pursuant to his reply, 17 December 1986, c, 539–40]: Information about job gains and losses is not available from the Department's statistics, but an indication of the net changes can be seen by comparing levels of employment at different dates.
Estimates of the numbers of employees in employment in the shipbuilding and repairing industries in Northern Ireland are not available for June 1979 or June 1986. The available information is given in the following table.
635W1 Figures in brackets denote the division, class or activity heading of the 1980 Standard Industrial Classification.
n/d Not available.