HC Deb 17 July 1987 vol 119 cc642-3W
Mr. Tom Clarke

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what information he has concerning the number of people employed as full-time equivalents in the textiles and clothing industries for each quarter in the last eight years.

Employees in Employment in the Textile and Clothing Industries in Great Britain
Thousands
1 Textiles 1 Clothing
2 Males All Part-time Females All Part-time 2 Males All Females All Part-time
1979
March 196.8 .. 179.3 39.0 67.5 255.8 50.8
June 192.8 .. 178.9 37.0 68.6 257.7 51.1
September 188.9 .. 176.1 37.2 67.6 257.3 48.7
December 182.3 .. 171.4 35.4 66.4 252.5 49.8
1980
March 174.1 .. 163.8 32.8 64.0 243.8 50.1
June 166.3 .. 158.4 31.4 62.7 233.1 45.4
September 155.8 .. 149.1 29.8 60.6 225.0 44.0
December 150.1 .. 142.3 28.1 58.2 211.8 40.3
1981
March 144.9 .. 137.2 26.0 57.0 202.8 38.8
June 140.7 .. 132.3 25.9 56.7 198.9 41.1
September 139.8 3.5 132.3 25.5 3 56.1 195.7 35.3
December 136.7 .. 130.3 24.9 54.6 193.5 33.9
1982
March 134.3 .. 128.1 24.3 53.6 190.4 32.9
June 130.9 .. 125.2 23.9 54.2 187.6 33.3
September 128.0 .. 122.6 23.3 53.4 187.8 32.8
December 125.2 .. 120.5 21.7 52.9 185.3 32.0
1983
March 124.0 .. 117.6 20.4 52.0 182.5 30.8
June 122.7 .. 116.1 20.1 51.4 183.1 30.2
September 123.0 .. 117.3 21.1 51.7 185.5 29.2
December 121.1 .. 116.8 20.3 51.7 187.1 30.1
1984
March 119.0 .. 114.2 20.0 51.8 188.8 29.8
June 119.5 .. 114.0 19.4 51.1 187.8 26.7
September 120.6 2.1 114.3 19.9 351.4 188.0 27.7
December 120.4 2.1 114.5 19.0 51.4 189.6 27.7
1985
March 118.7 2.0 112.8 19.1 51.3 189.4 27.7
June 118.9 2.1 113.9 19.6 52.2 190.7 28.0
September 120.7 2.3 115.9 19.2 53.5 194.2 27.7
December 121.4 2.2 115.5 18.7 53.2 192.7 25.1
1986
March 120.5 2.3 114.6 18.9 53.6 191.7 26.2
June 119.9 2.4 114.3 19.1 53.6 189.5 24.1
September 117.2 2.2 112.0 17.8 53.3 186.6 22.9
December 118.1 2.2 113.9 18.0 53.8 184.7 22.1
1987
March 115.1 2.0 107.8 15.5 52.5 183.0 24.0
1 Textiles are defined as SIC Class 43 and clothing as SIC Class 45 excluding footwear.
2 Estimates of the number of part-time male employees are available for all industries at census of employment dates with quarterly estimates from September 1984 for those industries where the sample is large enough to give reasonable estimates, including textiles but not clothing.
3 Includes 3,600 part-time males at September 1981 and 2,200 at September 1984.