Industrial Development Certificates and Control of the Growth of Employment in South-East England

H.M.S.O. , 1964.

Central Scotland-A Programme for Development and Growth (Cmnd. 2188) ; and The North-East-A Programme for Regional Development and Growth (Cmnd. 2206) , H.M.S.O., 1963.

Estimates of the number of employees in the United Kingdom at mid-1959, analysed by Minimum List headings according to the 1948 S.I.C., were published in Annual Abstract of Statistics, 1960, Table 135; and according to the 1958 S.I.C. in Ministry of Labour Gazette, February 1960 .

The number of employees is estimated to have risen by 54,000 between mid-1958 and mid-1959, as against an increase of 1,209,000 in 1950-62 as a whole. Ministry of Labour Gazette, March 1953, 1956 , 1959, 1960 and 1963. Adjustment was made for the transfer of Dorset (excluding Poole M. B.) from the Southern to the South-Western region in 1958 by reference to data supplied by the Ministry of Labour.

Sources as cited under 4 above.

Ministry of Labour Gazette , July 1950 and 1962.

'Agriculture' denotes Order I of the Standard Industrial Classification, viz. agriculture, forestry, and fishing.

Number of employees analysed by industry group in 1950 and 1958 from data supplied by the Ministry of Labour; 1959 and 1962 from Ministry of Labour Gazette, May 1960 and March 1963. Industrial analysis of unemployment by region in 1950 from Ministry of Labour and National Service, Tables Relating to Employment and Unemployment in Great Britain 1948, 1949, and 1950 (1951 ), pp. 8-19; and in 1962 from Statistics on Incomes, Prices, Employment and Production, September 1962, Table E.12. The figure for the change in employment in each group was obtained by adding the change in the number of employees in 1950-8 to the change in the number of employees in 1959-62, and then subtracting the increase in the number wholly unemployed between June 1950 and June 1962 .

Exact correspondence is not achieved since 'jewellery, plate, and refining of precious metals' (Minimum List heading 102 of the 1948 S.I.C. and 396 of the 1958 S.I.C.) which was part of Order IX of the 1948 S.I.C. remained part of Order IX under the 1958 S.I.C. Employment in this Minimum List heading is too small, however, to have a serious effect on the comparability of the figures shown in the table.

'Central London' comprises the City, Holborn, Marylebone, Westminster, and West End National Insurance office areas.

The figures were derived from data supplied by the Ministry of Labour, and are subject to a substantial margin of error in that no adjustment is made for National Insurance cards held and exchanged in one area for employees working in another area. The change between mid-1958 and mid-1959 is also omitted.

A detailed check is kept on the number of jobs produced in such projects, since in administering the Local Employment Act one of the aims is to keep to a minimum the expenditure per job created.

Seventh Report of the Estimates Committee, Session 1962/3. H. C. Paper No. 229 (1962/3), Q. 1229-31.

ibid., Q. 1306-8.

H.C. Deb. Vol. 613, c. 43-4.

ibid. , Vol. 615, c. 696.

'The Recent Development of Greater London', a paper read to the British Association and published in The Advancement of Science, May 1960, pp. 76-86. The quotation is at p. 77.

The table on p. 274 of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population (the Barlow Report, Cmd. 6153) shows that most of the interregional difference in the rate of increase in the number of insured employees between 1923 and 1937 could be attributed to differences in the industrial structure of employment.

Ministry of Labour Gazette , April 1964, p. 95.

The figure refers to the flat-rate contribution payable by an employer on behalf of employees not contracted out under the graduated pension scheme.

T.D. Smith , 'A Claim for the North-East', Town and Country Planning, April 1963, pp. 166-9. The quotations are from p. 167.

London Employment: Housing: Land, Cmnd. 1952, H.M.S.O., 1963.

Op. cit., paragraph 12.

If the figure of 15,000 a year is approximately correct for the early 196o's, it is more likely to be too high as an average for the eleven years than too low, since office building was subject to stringent control until building licensing was withdrawn in 1954.

The increase in employment outside agriculture, mining and quarrying, and manufacturing industry was shown on p. 140 supra as 63 i,ooo. Employment in building and contracting (1948 S.I.C.) and construction (1958 S.I.C.) increased by 51,000, which was subtracted from the 631,000 to give the increase in employment in services as defined here.

Calculated from data in Ministry of Labour Gazette, May 1960 and February 1964.