§ Dr. David ClarkTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the number of people employed in the food industry by county on the latest available date for which figures are available.
Mr. JacksonThe most recent estimates of employees in employment according to industry and by county are from the September1989 census of employment. Data for the food industries are given in the table.
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Thousands Industries (Groups of SIC 1980) Food Distribution Food Manufacturing SIC Groups 411 to 423 Retail SIC Groups 617 Wholesale2 SIC Group 641 Somerset 51 5.7 2.2 Wiltshire 6.5 7.4 2.4 West Midlands Hereford and Worcester 7.3 7.5 2.5 Shropshire 4.3 5.0 1.9 Staffordshire 8.4 10.5 3.2 Warwickshire 2.7 6.0 1.4 West Midlands 13.5 26.3 10.5 East Midlands Derbyshire 6.9 9.8 2.6 Leicestershire 9.9 9.4 3.9 Lincolnshire 12.0 7.5 4.2 Northamptonshire 7.7 7.2 3.5 Nottinghamshire 7.8 11.7 4.5 Yorkshire and Humberside Humberside 17.8 11.8 6.8 North Yorkshire 14.8 9.1 2.4 South Yorkshire 10.5 13.1 5.5 West Yorkshire 21.1 24.0 8.4 North West Cheshire 8.3 12.2 4.3 Greater Manchester 27.0 25.5 10.8 Lancashire 13.6 15.3 6.2 Merseyside 14.5 12.8 5.2 North Cleveland 4.2 5.4 1.0 Cumbria 7.6 6.3 0.9 Durham1 4.6 8.2 1.7 Northumberland1 Tyne and Wear 4.9 12.7 3.6 Wales Clwyd 4.2 6.1 1.0 Dyfed 1.6 3.7 1.3 Gwent 3.8 5.2 1.0 Gwynedd 1.6 3.4 0.8 Mid-Glamorgan1 4.5 7.2 1.6 Powys1 South Glamorgan 2.0 5.1 1.9 West Glamorgan 1.5 4.3 1.1 Scotland (Regions) Borders1 4.2 3.6 0.7 Dumfries and Galloway1 Central1 1.9 8.2 1.1 Fife1 Grampian 10.7 7.6 3.5 Highlands 1.3 3.1 0.9 Lothian 8.1 9.6 4.4 Strathclyde 18.3 27.4 8.5 Tayside 4.3 6.0 2.1 Islands 0.7 0.9 0.4 1 Figures for these two counties are combined to avoid disclosure, directly or indirectly, of information concerning an individual firm. 2 Includes the wholesale distribution of drink and tobacco.