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Mrs. Iris Robinson
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many jobs were lost in each sector of the manufacturing industry in Strangford in each of the last 10 years; and how much government funding was provided to manufacturing industry in each of the last five years. [97668]
| Table 1: Total confirmed redundancies in the Newtownards Job Centre area 1997–2003 | ||||||||
| Manufacturing sector | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | |
| DA | Food products; beverages and tobacco | 26 | 23 | 38 | 22 | 1 | 25 | 0 |
| DB | Textiles and textile products | 142 | 43 | 50 | 498 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DH | Rubber and plastic products | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DM | Transport equipment | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 24 | 0 |
| D | Total manufacturing | 168 | 66 | 88 | 541 | 15 | 49 | 0 |
| Table 2: Key assistance offered to manufacturing companies in the Strangford constituency for the last 5 years | |
| £ million | |
| 1997–98 | 2.57 |
| 1998–99 | 2.99 |
| 1999–2000 | 1.93 |
| 2000–01 | 2.19 |
| 2001–02 | 1.88 |