Tom Blenkinsop
Opposition Whip (Commons)
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what recent estimate the Office for National Statistics has made of the proportion of manufacturing jobs held by women in (a) each English region, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland.
Nick Hurd
The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office, The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Joe Grice, dated March 2014
In the absence of the Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking the Minister for the Cabinet Office what recent estimate the Office for National Statistics has made of the proportion of manufacturing jobs held by women in (a) each English region, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland.
Figures for the proportion of manufacturing jobs held by women in (a) each English region, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland, for the most recent period, Q3 2013, can be found in the table below:
| Percentage of UK manufacturing workforce jobs which are female | |
| Percentage | |
| North East | 17 |
| North West | 22 |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | 24 |
| East Midlands | 26 |
| West Midlands | 21 |
| East | 25 |
| London | 32 |
| South East | 23 |
| South West | 25 |
| Wales | 20 |
| Scotland | 26 |
| Northern Ireland | 23 |
| United Kingdom | 24 |
| Source: Figures obtained from 2013 Q3 Workforce Jobs Estimates | |
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