Current status: Answered by Neil Gray on 21 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many manufacturing jobs were created in each of the last 10 years.
Specific data on job creation is not collected. Over the past ten years, the estimated numbers of manufacturing jobs in Scotland, rounded to the nearest 1,000, were as follows:
Year | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
Total | 184000 | 176000 | 189000 | 181000 | 179000 | 185000 | 181000 | 169000 | 178000 | 179000 |
Source: Business Register and Employment Survey (Office for National Statistics; 2022)
The number of estimated jobs in manufacturing in each year since 2012 has fluctuated between 169,000 and 189,000. The most recent figure (2021) shows 179,000 estimated jobs.