asked the Secretary of State for Industry how many new jobs have been created by incoming firms per annum between the years 1973 to 1978 in (a) the various regions of Scotland and (b) South-East England.
The following provisional figures relate to new manufacturing units opening between 1973 and 1978 inclusive in the Scottish regions and in South-East England, with an origin outside Scotland and South-East England respectively.
| NUMBER OF NEW UNITS AND EMPLOYMENT | |||||||||||||||
1973
| 1974
| 1975
| 1976
| 1977
| 1978
| Total
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Number
| Employment
| Number
| Employment
| Number
| Employment
| Number
| Employment
| Number
| Employment
| Number
| Employment
| Number
| Employment
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| (i) SCOTLAND | … | 27 | 1,600 | 21 | 800 | 21 | 800 | (7 | 300)* | — | — | 76 | 3,500 | ||
| Dumfries and Galloway | … | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 2 | 2,000 | ||||||
| Borders | … | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 2 | |||||||
| Strathclyde | … | 13 | 10 | 10 | 2 | — | — | 35 | |||||||
| Central | … | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | 2 | 700 | ||||||
| Lothian | … | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | 13 | |||||||
| Fife | … | 3 | 4 | 5 | — | — | — | 12 | 450 | ||||||
| Tayside | … | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 4 | |||||||
| Grampian | … | 2 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 4 | 350 | ||||||
| Highland | … | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | |||||||
| Western Isles | … | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | |||||||
| Orkney | … | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Shetland | … | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| (ii) SOUTH EAST ENGLAND | … | 13 | 350 | 4 | 600 | 12 | 500 | 5 | 200 | 2 | 50 | 1 | 100 | 37 | 1,800 |
* The figures for 1976 and 1977 are amalgamated for Scotland. | |||||||||||||||
Notes:
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| (i) This table relates only to manufacturing industry and does not include employment arising from the inward movement of services enterprises, nor secondary employment arising in existing enterprises in the service or manufacturing sector as a result of expenditure by the new manufacturing units, or by those employed by them. | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) Some figures of employment cannot be quoted individually without a breach of confidence, i.e. they have therefore only been included rounded to the nearest 50 in the two columns headed "Total". | |||||||||||||||
| (iii) There is no statutory requirement for new manufacturing units to notify the Department of their existence and for this reason the coverage is incomplete. The figures are provisional because there is a time-lag before new manufacturing units are identified which leads to additions being made retrospectively, and also due to the fact that all their workforce is not required until a number of years after opening. In particular, coverage is partial for the years since 1975. | |||||||||||||||