§ Mr. FisherTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether his Department has discontinued(a) the collection or (b) the publication of any statistics since 1979.
§ Mr. Nicholls[holding answer 14 November 1989]: There has been no discontinuation of any of the statistics collected or published by the Department of Employment since 1986 other than where changes have occurred in the administrative systems from which some statistics are derived. The few minor discontinuations between 1979 and 1986 were described on 10 December 1986, Official Report, columns 221–24 by the then Paymaster General in his reply to the then hon. Member for Oldham, East.