asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many jobs in the engineering industry have been created and how many have been lost in each year since May 1979 in each of the Scottish new towns.
The numbers of jobs created and jobs lost in the engineering industry are set out in the following table.
| 1979–80 | 1980–81 | 1981–82 | |
| Cumbernauld | |||
| Jobs created | 170 | 121 | 97 |
| Jobs lost | 209 | 662 | 744 |
| East Kilbride | |||
| Jobs created | 408 | 259 | 450 |
| Jobs lost | 818 | 3,830 | 600 |
| Glenrothes | |||
| Jobs created | 413 | 296 | 280 |
| Jobs lost | 122 | 392 | 472 |
| Irvine | |||
| Jobs created | 197 | 43 | 70 |
| Jobs lost | 802 | 714 | 478 |
| Livingston | |||
| Jobs created | 296 | 431 | 206 |
| Jobs lost | 649 | 378 | 416 |
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many jobs have been created and how many lost in each year since May 1979 in each of the Scottish new towns.
This information is not available. However, the numbers of jobs created and jobs lost in industry are set out in the following table.
1979–80
| 1980–81
| 1981–82
| |
| Cumbernauld | |||
| Jobs created | 806 | 512 | 544 |
| Jobs lost | 611 | 1662 | 1816 |
| East Kilbride | |||
| Jobs created | 599 | 587 | 874 |
| Jobs lost | 915 | 4437 | 1310 |
| Glenrothes | |||
| Jobs created | 914 | 706 | 758 |
| Jobs lost | 624 | 1933 | 915 |
| Irvine | |||
| Jobs created | 1208 | 224 | 439 |
| Jobs lost | 1369 | 2576 | 1187 |
| Livingston | |||
| Jobs created | 930 | 607 | 601 |
| Jobs lost | 965 | 1133 | 1108 |