asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many males and females, respectively, were notified as being redundant in Scotland, by industry groups, during the year 1st February, 1971, to 31st January, 1972; and what were the figures for the previous five years.
The information, so far as it is available, is given in the following tables, subject to the explanatory footnotes:
Numbers Affected
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Industry Groups
| 1969 (1st Half)
| 1968
| 1967
| 1966
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Total
| Males included
| Total
| Males included
| Total
| Males included
| Total
| Males included
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| Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing | — | — | 73 | 36 | 41 | 28 | 13 | 13 | ||
| Mining and Quarrying | … | 1,414 | 1,401 | 4,295 | 4,284 | 5,654 | 5,642 | 2,963 | 2,938 | |
| Food, Drink and Tobacco | … | 1,002 | 317 | 1,474 | 1,058 | 2,463 | 968 | 864 | 346 | |
| Chemicals and Allied Industries | 175 | 51 | 541 | 421 | 621 | 553 | 962 | 437 | ||
| Metal Manufacture | … | … | 461 | 452 | 670 | 633 | 2,803 | 2,678 | 1,199 | 1,105 |
| Engineering and Electrical Goods | 1,899 | 1,747 | 4,928 | 3,856 | 6,518 | 5,059 | 3,781 | 2,596 | ||
| Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering | 849 | 834 | 1,981 | 1,973 | 2,824 | 2,803 | 2,797 | 2,756 | ||
| Vehicles | … | … | — | — | 446 | 440 | 638 | 610 | 2,103 | 1,911 |
| Other Metal Goods | … | … | 165 | 84 | 321 | 123 | 529 | 352 | 759 | 448 |
| Textiles | … | … | 119 | 22 | 1,873 | 524 | 2,814 | 820 | 1,122 | 459 |
| Leather, Leather Goods and Fur | 32 | 30 | 7 | 4 | 22 | 17 | 26 | 22 | ||
| Clothing and Footwear | … | 297 | 29 | 268 | 26 | 1,227 | 212 | 53 | 5 | |
| Bricks, Pottery, Glass, Cement etc. | 185 | 181 | 563 | 515 | 398 | 376 | 838 | 772 | ||
| Timber, Furniture etc | … | 115 | 103 | 177 | 141 | 420 | 332 | 186 | 151 | |
| Paper, Printing and Publishing | 343 | 156 | 1,495 | 1,099 | 806 | 467 | 551 | 326 | ||
| Other Manufacturing Industries | 38 | 37 | 647 | 354 | 244 | 166 | 224 | 121 | ||
| Construction | … | … | 803 | 784 | 755 | 719 | 1,331 | 1,311 | 2,323 | 2,286 |
| Gas, Electricity and Water | … | 98 | 77 | 21 | 21 | 65 | 60 | 108 | 108 | |
| Transport and Communication | 58 | 58 | 454 | 438 | 1,047 | 1,019 | 484 | 445 | ||
| Distributive Trades | … | … | 332 | 129 | 995 | 325 | 706 | 330 | 441 | 211 |
| Insurance, Banking and Finance | — | — | 164 | 63 | 33 | 14 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Professional and Scientific Services | — | — | 72 | 20 | 36 | 9 | — | — | ||
| Miscellaneous Services | … | 570 | 181 | 874 | 299 | 724 | 226 | 290 | 86 | |
| Public Administration and Defence | 39 | 37 | 72 | 50 | 250 | 209 | — | — | ||
Notes
1. The figures given are not comprehensive since not all redundancies are notified to the Department.
2. The figures are compiled on the basis of "statistical months" and not calendar months. The years quoted are therefore from mid-December to mid-December.
3. A plus sign following a figure indicates that the precise male figure is not known.
4. The tables are split, due to the fact that a revised Standard Industrial Classification came into use in mid-1969.