HC Deb 28 April 1988 vol 132 cc234-5W
Mr. Gordon Brown

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of full-time and part-time workers employed in the textile industry for each year from 1970.

Mr. Lee

The Department's employment statistics are analysed according to the standard industrial classification (SIC), and the series is broken by the introduction of the 1980 SIC, which reclassified certain activities, including the textile industry. The table gives the available information on the industry on a consistent 1980 SIC basis from June 1971.

Part-time male figures on this basis are available only from the censuses of employment carried out in September 1981 and September 1984, and quarterly thereafter. Comparable figures are not available for dates prior to June 1971.

Males Females
Full-time Part-lime All Full-time Part-time All
June 1973 — — 247.8 186.6 43.0 229.6
June 1974 — — 240.7 176.2 47.8 224.0
June 1975 — — 218.6 155.6 44.1 199.7
June 1976 — — 212.3 149.7 41.7 191.4
June 1977 — — 211.6 151.6 42.6 194.2
June 1978 — — 202.8 145.6 39.9 185.5
June 1979 — — 192.6 141.9 37.0 178.9
June 1980 — — 166.3 127.0 31.4 158.4
June 1981 — — 140.7 106.4 25.9 132.3
September 1981 136.3 3.5 139.8 106.8 25.5 132.3
June 1982 — — 130.9 101.3 23.9 125.2
June 1983 — — 122.7 96.0 20.1 116.1
June 1984 — — 119.5 94.6 19.4 114.0
September 1984 118.5 2.1 120.6 94.4 19.9 114.3
June 1985 116.8 2.1 118.9 94.3 19.6 113.9
June 1986 117.4 2.4 119.8 95.2 19.2 114.4
June 1987 112.4 2.3 114.7 91.7 15.2 106.9
December 19872 110.4 2.4 112.8 91.9 14.3 106.2
1The textile industry is defined as Class 43 of the 1980 Standard Industrial Classification.
2 The latest date for which estimates are available.