HC Deb 14 January 1997 vol 288 cc224-5W
26. Mr. Hoyle

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is his Department's estimate of the number of(a) direct and (b) indirect jobs in the United Kingdom defence industry; and what was this number in 1990. [8996]

29. Mr. George

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is his Department's estimate of the number of(a) direct and (b) indirect jobs in the United Kingdom defence industry; and what was the number in 1990. [8999]

Mr. Arbuthnot

Estimates of UK employment dependent both directly and indirectly on defence expenditure and equipment exports in recent years appear in table 1.10 of "UK Defence Statistics 1996", a copy of which is in the Library of the House.

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