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Cars: Manufacturing Industries

Asked by Mark PritchardConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 11 February 2025UIN 27999

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the number of jobs lost in the car manufacturing sector between July and December 2024.

Answered by Sarah Jones

The government produces estimates of the levels of employee and self-employed jobs by industry sector on a quarterly basis (Mar, Jun, September and Dec). Data on the number of jobs by industry sector in December 2024 will be published on 20th March 2025.

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