Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information his Department holds on the number of textile manufacturers in (a) the UK, (b) Yorkshire, (c) Manchester, (d) Leeds, (e) Kirklees, and (f) Huddersfield.

In 2014 there were 3,840 textile manufacturing enterprises in the UK, 420 of these in the Yorkshire and Humber region. Data is not published on the number of textile manufacturing enterprises at the sub-regional level requested.

Data from the Business Registers Employment Survey shows that in 2013 the textile manufacturing industry supported the following numbers of jobs. Note that these are survey estimates and as such subject to survey error particularly at more detailed geographical areas.