asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many employees are now engaged in producing motor cycles and mopeds in the West Midlands.

At June 1974, the latest date for which detailed regional figures are available, 5,300 people were employed in the West Midlands in the manufacture of motor cycles, mopeds, bicycles and pedal cycles etc. (Minimum List Heading 382 of the Standard Industrial Classification.) The number of employees engaged in producing motor cycles and mopeds cannot be identified separately from the statistics maintained by my Department.