Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people in (a) the West Midlands and (b) Coventry South constituency are employed in the automotive industry.
In 2016 the Automotive manufacturing industry employed 54,000 in the West Midlands region with 7,000 of these employed in the Coventry South constituency.
These figures come from publicly available data collected by the Office for National Statistics’ Business registers and Employment Survey and can be accessed via their NOMIS database - https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/