HC Deb 29 March 1994 vol 240 c696W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the correlation between the rate of economic growth since 1964 and the numbers employed in manufacturing in the United Kingdom and other industrial countries.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

Industrial employment has fallen in a majority of the G7 countries since 1964. Output, on the other hand, has risen—in most cases substantially.