asked the Secretary of State for Employment what were the net gains or losses in jobs in (a) manufacturing industries, (b) mining, (c) railways, (d) steel and shipbuilding and (e) service industries in England in each of the last five years.
Information about job gains and job losses is not available from the Department's statistics, but an indication of the net changes can be seen by comparing levels of employees in employment at different dates.The tables give the change in the number of employees in employment between December each year for the period specified, analysed according to the 1980 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC).Table 1 gives information about manufacturing industries and service industries in England, while table 2 gives corresponding details of the other industries, but for Great Britain. Information for England is not available for these industries.
Table 1 Employees in Employment—England (thousands)
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Change between December each year
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Divisions of the 1980 SIC
| 1979–80
| 1980–81
| 1981–82
| 1982–83
| 1983–84
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| Manufacturing industries | 2–4 | -531 | -405 | -272 | -141 | -32 |
| Service industries | 6–9 | -118 | -143 | -80 | +237 | +215 |
Table 2 Employees in Employment—Great Britain (thousands)
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Change between December each year
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Headings of the 1980 SIC
| 1979–80
| 1980–81
| 1981–82
| 1982–83
| 1983–84
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| Deep coal mines | 1,113 | -3·4 | -11·5 | -8·8 | -21·2 | -13·2 |
| Extraction of mineral oil and natural gas | 130 | |||||
| Extraction and preparation of metalliferous ores | 210 | |||||
| Extraction of minerals not elsewhere specified | 230 | |||||
| Railways | 710 | -3·9 | -7·3 | -9·2 | -6·9 | -8·7 |
| Iron and steel industry | 221 | -55·8 | -31·7 | -23·7 | -24·6 | -17·5 |
| Steel tubes | 222 | |||||
| Drawing, cold rolling and cold forming of steel | 223 | |||||
| Shipbuilding and repairing | 361 | |||||