Engineering: Manpower

Mr. Olner
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what assessment he has made of the age profile of the UK engineering work force.

Mr. Timms
My Department has made no such assessment. Official statistics for the age profile of the manufacturing work force are as follows:

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|Age                                                                |Percentage|
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|16 to 19                                                           |2         |
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|20 to 24                                                           |7.2       |
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|25 to 49                                                           |62.2      |
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|50+                                                                |28.6      |
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|Source:ONS Annual Population Survey workplace analysis (Nomis 2007)|          |
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