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Mr. Nicholas Winterton
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many jobs have been shed in the United Kingdom clothing and textile industries in each of the last 15 years for which figures are available.
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 SIC 43 and 45 (excluding 4510 footwear) Great Britain (thousands) | |
| Net yearly change | |
| June | |
| 1975 | -60·4 |
| 1976 | -31·5 |
| 1977 | 7·7 |
| 1978 | -24·6 |
| 1979 | -18·0 |
| 1980 | -77·1 |
| 1981 | -92·0 |
| 1982 | -30·6 |
| 1983 | -24·7 |
| 1984 | -0·8 |
| 1985 | 5·7 |
| 1986 | 4·7 |
| 1987 | -11·1 |
| 1988 | 7·3 |
| 1989 | -16·2 |
| 1990 | -10·1 |