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Mr. Ernie Ross
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what has been the total number of jobs lost in Dundee in engineering since 1979; and if he will provide figures for the subgroups (a)mechanical, (b) instrument, (c) electrical, (d) shipbuilding and (e) marine engineering.
Mr. Alexander Fletcher
Comprehensive information on job losses is not available. The total number of redundancies notified to MSC Scotland as due to occur in the specified categories in Dundee over the period between January 1979 and October 1982 was as follows:
| Engineering and allied industries | Numbers |
| Mechanical engineering | 161 |
| Instrument engineering | 1,124 |
| Electrical engineering | 725 |
| Shipbuilding and marine engineering | 1,143 |
| Total | 3,201 |
Note: Separate figures for marine engineering are not available and these have been included in the total for shipbuilding; the figures exclude redundancies involving fewer than 10 workers.