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Mr. Nicholas Winterton
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many jobs have been lost in the textile and clothing industries in each of the last 12 months.
Mr. Jackson
Changes in the number of employees in the textile and clothing industries are supplied in the table.
| Employees in Textile and Clothing industries Textiles and Clothing excluding footwear | |
| (Great Britain) | |
| Net monthly change (thousands) | |
| 1989 | |
| August | 5·8 |
| September | 0·2 |
| October | -1·1 |
| November | 1·1 |
| December | 3·2 |
| 1990 | |
| January | -0·6 |
| February | 5·9 |
| March | -0·5 |
| April | -0·8 |
| May | -0·3 |
| June | -0·7 |
| July | 1·4 |
| August | -0·8 |