asked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing redundancies for the period from May 1979 to date involving 10 or more persons as due to occur in Great Britain in each order of the Standard Industrial Classification.
The available information is given in the following table:
Confirmed redundancies* by industry: May 1979 to June 1985†:
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Great Britain
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Industry‡ (SIC 1980)
| Class
| Number of Redundancies (thousands)
|
| Agriculture, forestry and fishing | 01–03 | 4·7 |
| Coal extraction and coke | 11–12 | 38·4 |
| Mineral oil and natural gas extraction | 13 | 1·8 |
| Mineral oil processing | 14 | 3·3 |
| Nuclear fuel production | 15 | 2·4 |
| Gas, electricity and water | 16–17 | 7·6 |
| Extraction of other minerals and ores | 21–23 | 2·7 |
| Metal manufacture | 22 | 143·5 |
| Manufacture of non-metallic products | 24 | 58·9 |
| Chemical industry | 25 | 56·3 |
| Production of man-made fibres | 26 | 15·0 |
| Shipbuilding and repairing | 30 | 34·0 |
| Manufacture of metal goods | 31 | 135·3 |
| Mechanical engineering | 32 | 271·3 |
| Manufacture of office machinery etc. | 33 | 18·1 |
| Electrical and electronic engineering | 34 | 148·4 |
| Manufacture of motor vehicles | 35 | 139·8 |
| Manufacture of aerospace and other transport equipment | 36 | 45·3 |
| Instrument engineering | 37 | 19·5 |
| Food drink and tobacco | 41–42 | 131·5 |
| Textiles | 43 | 106·2 |
| Leather, footwear and clothing | 44–45 | 103·4 |
| Timber and furniture | 46 | 40·1 |
| Paper, printing and publishing | 47 | 71·6 |
| Other manufacturing industries | 48–49 | 74·8 |
| Construction | 50 | 178·4 |
| Wholesale distribution | 61–63 | 38·5 |
| Retail distribution | 64–65 | 85·9 |
| Hotel and catering | 66 | 25·9 |
| Repair of consumer goods and vehicles | 67 | 5·1 |
| Transport | 71–77 | 53·9 |
| Telecommunications | 79 | 22·1 |
| Insurance, banking, finance etc. | 81–85 | 35·2 |
| Public administration and defence | 91–94 | 54·4 |
| Medical and other health services | 95 | 12·7 |
| Other services (not elsewhere specified) | 99–99,00 | 33·8 |
| All industries and services | 2,219·7 | |
* Confirmed by the Manpower Services Commission as due to occur and based on notifications of impending redundancies involving ten or more workers. | ||
| † Includes provisional figures for May and June 1985. | ||
| ‡ Figures for 1979 to 1983 are estimated because of the change in the industrial classification system made in January 1984. | ||