§ Mr. OlnerTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were employed in the textile industry, the clothing industry and the mining industry in the west midlands in 1980 and for each subsequent year to date.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe available information on regional employment for the industries requested is from the censuses of employment taken in 1981, 1984, 1987, and 1989. Data for the west midlands can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the Library, subject to the confidentiality restrictions of the Statistics of Trade Act 1947.