Manufacturing Industry (Hansard, 12 February 2002)

§ Ruth Kelly

[holding answer 8 February 2002]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.

Letter from Len Cook to Paul Flynn, dated 12 February 2002: As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent question about how many jobs in manufacturing industry were lost (a) in each of the past 10 years and (b) in each month in 2001. (34835) The information requested is shown in the attached tables. Table 1 shows the number of employee jobs in manufacturing for 1992 to 2001. Table 2 shows the number of employee jobs in manufacturing over the period January to November 2001. Rolling three-month averages are shown to reduce the variability in the data. These estimates are based on the results of regular sample surveys of employers which count the number of employee jobs. The data are published in Statbase on the National Statistics website at www.statistics.gov.uk under series identifier YEJL.

Table 1: UK employee jobs in manufacturing (seasonally adjusted) 1992–2001
	Thousand	Change over year	Percentage change over year
June 1991	4,372	—	—
June 1992	4,146	-226	-5.2
June 1993	3,960	-186	-4.5
June 1994	3,975	15	0.4
June 1995	4,076	101	2.5
June 1996	4,121	45	1.1
June 1997	4,185	64	1.6
June 1998	4,204	19	0.5
June 1999	4,068	-136	-3.2
June 2000	3,965	-103	-2.5
June 2001	3,837	-128	-3.2

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Table 2: UK employee jobs in manufacturing (seasonally adjusted) 2001
	Levels	Change over month	Latest 3 months averages	Change 3 months on 3 months one year ago	Latest 3 months on 3 months one year ago (percentage)
March	3,881	-6	3,888	-114	-2.9
April	3,876	-5	3,881	-112	-2.8
May	3,858	-19	3,872	-111	-2.8
June	3,837	-20	3,857	-117	-2.9
July	3,826	-11	3,840	-124	-3.1
August	3,808	-18	3,824	-131	-3.3
September	3,790	-17	3,808	-134	-3.4
October	3,777	-14	3,792	-141	-3.6
November	3,760	-16	3,776	-146	-3.7