Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what data her Department holds on the number of people in (a) the West Midlands, (b) Coventry and (c) Coventry North East constituency who have been employed in the automotive industry in each of the last three years.
According to the ONS Business Registers and Employment Survey (BRES) the estimated numbers employed in automotive manufacturing in the West Midlands, Coventry and Coventry North-East were as follows (latest published year 2022):
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
West Midlands | 54,000 | 57,000 | 46,000 |
Coventry | 7,000 | 7,000 | 6,000 |
Coventry North-East | 1,750 | 2,000 | 1,500 |