HC Deb 26 November 1992 vol 214 cc816-7W
1991. Mr. Jim Cunningham

To ask the President of the Board of Trade how many people were employed in the aircraft industry in(a) 1980 and (b)

Mr. Sainsbury

The annual census of production shows UK aerospace employment in 1980 as 198,300 and the provisional figures for 1991, which may be subject to revision at a later date, as 166,000.