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Footwear And Textile Industries

Volume 164: debated on Monday 8 January 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what numbers of jobs there have been in (a) footwear and (b) textile industries for each year since 1979; and how many have been lost in each industry in 1989, by month.

Employees in the footwear and textile industries (SIC 80)
Great Britain(thousands)
Footwear SIC group 4511989 monthly changeTextiles SIC class 431989 monthly change
June 197968·8371·4
June 198065·3324·8
June 198158·8273·0
June 198253·5256·2
June 198351·4238·8
June 198452·8233·5
June 198551·1234·5
June 198651·9238·2
June 198750·8229·0
June 198849·5231·0
December 198848·9225·9
January 198948·7-0·2223·3-2·6
February 198948·2-0·5219·5-3·8
March 198947·7-0·5218·6-0·9
April 198947-2-0·5217·6-1·0
May 198946·8-0·4216·5-1·0
June 198946·6-0·2217·81·3
July 198946·4-0·2215·5-2·3
August 198945·7-0·7215·70·2
September 198945·3-0·4218·12·5
October 198945·2-0·1217·0-1·1