§ Mr. Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry which are the inner-city programmes his Department is carrying out; what non-Government organisations are taking part in such programmes; where each of these programmes is operating; and on what date each one was started.
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§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe only programme carried out by my Department that is specifically targeted on inner cities is the inner-city task force initiative. A wide range of private and voluntary sector organisations, and local authorities, work with the task forces. A list of the dates on which the existing task forces were announced is as follows:
Date Leeds (Chapeltown/Harehills) February 1986 Manchester (Moss Side and Hulme) February 1986 Bristol February 1986 Middlesbrough February 1986 North Kensington February 1986 North Peckham February 1986 Coventry (Folkshill and Hillfields) April 1987 Doncaster1 April 1987 Hartlepool April 1987 Nottingham April 1987 Rochdale1 April 1987 Spitalfields April 1987 East Birmingham June 1988 Deptford March 1989 Liverpool (Granby/Toxteth) March 1989 Bradford March 1989 Derby2 February 1990 Wirral2 February 1990 1 Task Forces to be closed in the autumn. 1 Task Forces announced, but yet to be opened.
Distribution of number of enterprises and persons employed in manufacturing industry, 1983 Number of persons employed 1 to 19 20 to 99 100 to 499 500 and over Undisclosed (20 and over) Total United Kingdom Enterprises: Number (000s) 76.2 17.5 5.9 1.6 .7 101.9 Percentage 74.8 17.2 5.8 1.5 0.7 100 Persons employed: Number (000s) 553 766 1,279 2,210 297 5,105 Percentage 10.8 15.0 25.1 43.3 5.8 100 West Germany Enterprises: Number (000s) 189.2 22.6 9.8 — 221.5 Percentage 85.4 10.2 4.4 — 100 Persons employed: Number (000s) 925 1,014 5,641 — 7,581 Percentage 12–2 13–4 74–4 — 100 The "OECD Employment Outlook", published in September 1985, provides a source of comparative data for the United Kingdom and Japan. Enterprises are defined in terms of company groups, so that the concentration of
Distribution of persons employed by size of enterprise in manufacturing industry Number of persons employed 1 to 29 30 to 99 100 to 499 500 and over Percentage total United Kingdom 20.3 13.4 66.3 100 Japan 19831 27.8 19.3 19.6 33.3 100 1 Wage earners and salaried employees only. In the early '70s only 17.5 per cent. of Japanese employees in manufacturing worked for companies employing more than 1,000 people. However this proportion is based on individual places of business and not company groups and is therefore not directly comparable with figures shown in the table relating to the OECD study.