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Treasury;Office for National Statistics

Answer

Mr. Bercow: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many manufacturing jobs have been lost since April. [14392] Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply. Letter from Len Cook to Mr. John Bercow, dated 14 November 2001: As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question about the reduction in the number of manufacturing jobs since April (14392). The table below shows the number of employee jobs in manufacturing for April and August 2001 for comparative purposes. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. UK Thousand{ 1} April 2001 3,864 August 2001 3,805 Change between April and August 2001 {2}-59 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Seasonally adjusted {2} -1.5 per cent. These estimates are based on the results of regular sample surveys of employers which count the number of employee jobs. The data are published in Statbase on the National Statistics website www.statistics.gov.uk./statbase/tsdataset.asp?vlnk=342 under series identifier YEJL.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

374 c772-3W; 14392

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Manufacturing industries Redundancy Office for National Statistics Unemployment

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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