§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing employment in manufacturing industry by county using the data from the last three censuses of employment; and if he will also state the intercensal change for each county in an index form with the earliest of the three censuses of employment as the base.
§ Mr. LeeThe available information from censuses of employment taken in June 1978, September 1981 and September 1984 is given in the table. Because of changes in the standard industrial classification, and in the compilation of the county data, the June 1978 figures are not strictly comparable with the figures for later years. Indices using June 1978 as base cannot therefore be meaningfully calculated.
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Employees in employment in manufacturing industries Counties June1 1978 September2 1981 September2 1984 South East Bedfordshire 88.1 71.5 67.8 Berkshire 89.1 85.4 76.5 Buckinghamshire 65.3 65.7 66.8 East Sussex 37.5 36.4 32.7 Essex 156.7 140.4 119.5 Greater London 768.8 684.6 569.0 Hampshire 166.6 153.3 146.7 Hertfordshire 151.5 132.4 118.1 Isle of Wight 10.4 9.0 8.8 Kent 137.7 118.3 103.5 118W
Counties June1 1978 September2 1981 September2 1984 Oxfordshire 54.2 47.6 43.8 Surrey 81.3 77.4 74.5 West Sussex 60.9 61.1 58.3 East Anglia Cambridgeshire 61.5 60.7 68.2 Norfolk 71.3 63.3 63.2 Suffolk 67.0 61.9 58.3 South West Avon 110.4 94.9 89.2 Cornwall 21.3 23.6 22.3 Devon 67.0 68.9 69.1 Dorset 47.6 44.3 41.2 Gloucestershire 71.1 65.2 57.6 Somerset 48.2 46.0 45.6 Wiltshire 62.8 52.6 51.2 West Midlands Hereford and Worcester 76.5 67.9 64.3 Shropshire 39.2 32.0 33.0 Staffordshire 163.8 144.3 141.9 Warwickshire 55.5 61.6 56.3 West Midlands 651.0 494.8 413.7 East Midlands Derbyshire 161.6 133.2 122.2 Leicestershire 160.5 150.5 140.9 Lincolnshire 50.7 44.3 40.7 Northamptonshire 88.6 73.7 69.5 Nottinghamshire 136.9 131.5 115.1 Yorkshire and Humberside Humberside 110.5 92.1 81.9 North Yorkshire 56.1 53.5 49.7 South Yorkshire 206.3 158.6 122.4 West Yorkshire 336.2 274.6 230.8 North West Cheshire 140.5 116.7 105.9 Greater Manchester 443.2 345.8 291.3 Lancashire 210.9 182.5 153.6 Merseyside 203.1 154.7 119.8
Counties June1 1978 September2 1981 September2 1984 North Cumbria 69.8 56.9 49.6 Cleveland 93.7 74.9 53.3 Durham 74.6 62.1 54.7 Northumberland 23.0 19.5 19.3 Tyne and Wear 162.4 126.0 99.0 Wales Clwyd 43.9 33.7 35.2 Dyfed 23.6 17.1 15.9 Gwent 65.8 52.8 46.1 Gwynedd 11.8 11.5 9.3 Mid Glamorgan 70.8 52.5 44.7 Powys 5.8 7.0 6.9 South Glamorgan 300 26.6 25.2 West Glamorgan 57.9 36.9 28.8 Scotland (Region and Islands areas) Borders 14.2 12.9 12.6 Central 38.2 31.1 22.8 Dumfries and Galloway 11.7 12.2 11.3 Fife 42.8 40.0 35.8 Grampian 36.9 36.8 35.2 Highlands 12.6 12.4 10.2 Lothians 67.2 66.2 55.3 Strathclyde 331.3 249.8 215.4 Tayside 45.5 37.1 32.1 Orkney Islands 0.5 0.7 0.5 Shetland Islands 1.1 1.1 1.2 Western Isles 0.9 1.5 1.2 1 Jobcentre based information: 1968 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Orders III-XIX. 2 Ward based information (ward boundaries as at September 1981): 1980 SIC Divisions 2–4. Note:
Jobcentre and ward based aggregates are not strictly comparable. The former are based on an amalgamation of jobcentre areas which may not be coterminous with the county boundary and, unlike the ward based aggregates, they include no allowance for non response and undetected duplication in census returns.
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