HC Deb 29 April 1987 vol 115 cc135-6W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

asked the Paymaster General whether he will publish in the Official Report the number of employees covered by each column in tables 18.7 to 18.11 of the Monthly Digest of Statistics.

Mr. Lee

For industries within manufacturing industry at September 1986, the available information on the number of manual employees corresponding to tables 18.7 to 18.9 of the "Monthly Digest of Statistics" is shown in Table 1.10 ofEmployment Gazette, December 1986, a copy of which is in the Library.

Employment estimates for the nearest comparable industry groupings to those shown for the average earnings index in tables 18.10 and 18.11 of the "Monthly Digest of Statistics", at December 1986, are as follows:

Employees in Employment in Great Britain December 1986
Division, Class or Group of SIC (80) Number of employees in employment (thousands)
0–9 21,270
2–4 5,152
1–4 5,666
01–03 313
11–14 216
15–17 298
21–24 434
25–26 343
32 705
33–34 630
35 249
36 274
31, 37 394
41–42 551
43 251
44–45 331
46 217
47 476
48–49 296
50 1007
61–65, 67 3,301
66 1,018
71–72, 75–77, 79 1,313
81–82, 83, 84 2,046
91,921 1,699
93,95 2,941
97–98 656

Some of these estimates are subject to considerable estimation error due to the small number of employees in the industries concerned.