HC Deb 12 March 1990 vol 169 cc44-5W
Mr. Tony Lloyd

To 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.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The 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.

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