Northern Ireland written question – answered at on 15 March 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many manufacturing jobs have been (a) created and (b) lost in the last 12 months in each of the 18 Northern Ireland constituencies.
Information on the number of jobs created and lost is not available.
However, figures from the Census of Employment can be used to estimate the net change in employee jobs between censuses and the most up to date figures relate to September 2003. The number of jobs in manufacturing at September 2001 and September 2003 and the change over this two year period for each parliamentary constituency area is shown in table 1.
The number of redundancies confirmed to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment in the manufacturing sector in each constituency over the last 12 months is shown in table 2.
September | |||
---|---|---|---|
2001 | 2003 | Change | |
Belfast East | 9,537 | 7,600 | -1,937 |
Belfast North | 4,377 | 3,712 | -665 |
Belfast South | 2,819 | 2,557 | -262 |
Belfast West | 2,801 | 2,466 | -335 |
East Antrim | 4,883 | 3,646 | -1,237 |
East Londonderry | 5,276 | 4,905 | -371 |
Fermanagh and South Tyrone | 7,103 | 7,083 | -20 |
Foyle | 6,640 | 5,765 | -875 |
Lagan Valley | 7,322 | 6,664 | -658 |
Mid-Ulster | 6,418 | 6,876 | +458 |
Newry and Armagh | 3,958 | 4,041 | +83 |
North Antrim | 7,201 | 7,205 | +4 |
North Down | 2,399 | 1,995 | -404 |
South Antrim | 6,505 | 6,218 | -287 |
South Down | 3,268 | 3,408 | +140 |
Strangford | 4,624 | 4,200 | -424 |
Upper Bann | 10,494 | 9,490 | -1,004 |
West Tyrone | 4,561 | 4,053 | -508 |
Northern Ireland | 100,186 | 91,884 | -8,302 |
Source:
Census of Employment, DETI
Parliamentary constituency | Number of confirmed redundancies |
---|---|
Belfast East | 127 |
Belfast North | 0 |
Belfast South | 89 |
Belfast West | 131 |
East Antrim | 43 |
East Londonderry | 7 |
Fermanagh and South Tyrone 39 | |
Foyle | 63 |
Lagan Valley | 157 |
Mid-Ulster | 38 |
Newry and Armagh | 0 |
North Antrim | 275 |
North Down | 0 |
South Antrim | 43 |
South Down | 55 |
Strangford | 37 |
Upper Bann | 135 |
West Tyrone | 251 |
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