asked the Paymaster General whether he will provide in the Official Report a table showing the percentage change in employment in the chemical, transport equipment, textile, mechanical engineering and metal-working industries between, respectively, 1974 and 1979 and 1974 and the latest available quarter, in the case of the United Kingdom and showing such information as he has for Germany, France, Italy, the United States of America and Japan.
Estimates of the total numbers employed in the United Kingdom in the industries specified are not available as the self-employed statistics are not analysed in the degree of detail required. The available information for the United Kingdom is as follows:
| Employees in employment: United Kingdom | ||
| Net changes between June 1974 and June 1979 | Net changes between June 1974 and September 19861 | |
| Per cent | Per cent | |
| Chemical industry (25)2 | 1 | -17 |
| Manufacture of other transport equipment (36) | -7 | -30 |
| Textile industry (43) | -20 | -48 |
| Mechanical engineering (32) | -3 | -33 |
| Manufacture of metal goods not elsewhere specified (31) | -10 | -47 |
| 1 The latest date for which United Kingdom available. Estimates are available | ||
| 2 The figures in parenthesis indicate the class of the 1980 Standard Industrial Classification. | ||
| Percentage changes in employment between 1980 and the 1st quarter of 1986 | ||||
| United Kingdom | Germany | France | Italy | |
| Chemical industry (25 and 26) | -17 | -2 | -8 | -30 |
| Transport equipment (35 and 36) | -31 | +3 | n.a. | -28 |
| Textiles (43) | -22 | -24 | -19 | -27 |
| Mechanical engineering (32) | -26 | -4 | -18 | -25 |
| Metal-working industries (31 to 36) | -27 | -3 | -16 | -27 |
| 1 The figures in parenthesis indicate the class of the 1980 Standard Industrial Classification. | ||||
| n.a. Not available. | ||||
asked the Paymaster General (1) if he will list the number of employees in 1981 and in 1984., and any estimate he has for 1986, and the numbers employed in (a) manufacturing, (b) construction, (c) metal manufacturing, and (d) engineering and allied industries in each parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom.(2) if he will list the net jobs loss for
(a) all employees, (b) employees in manufacturing and construction (c) employees in manufacturing, (d) employees in engineering
and allied industries and (e) employees in metal manufacturing, and the percentage fall, from June 1979 to the latest date for which figures are available for (i) Greater London, (ii) Birmingham, (iii) Liverpool, (iv) Manchester, (v) Newcastle, (vi) Glasgow, (vii) Cardiff, (viii) Bristol, (ix) Coventry, (x) Leicester, (xi) Bradford, (xii) Edinburgh, (xiii) Dundee and (xiv) Swansea.
I shall reply to the hon. Member as soon as possible.