§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked 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.
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§ Mr. LeeFor 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.