Current status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 17 September 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many jobs there have been in the hospitality sector in each of the last 10 years.
The Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES), produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), is the preferred source for jobs estimates for industry sectors. The latest available BRES jobs estimates are for 2022 with consistent time series available back to 2015. Jobs estimates for the Accommodation and Food Service Activities sector for 2015 to 2022 are shown in the following table.
Table 1: Estimated jobs in the Accommodation and Food Service Activities sector, Scotland, 2015 to 2022
YEAR | JOBS ESTIMATE |
2015 | 210,000 |
2016 | 191,000 |
2017 | 197,000 |
2018 | 207,000 |
2019 | 214,000 |
2020 | 179,000 |
2021 | 196,000 |
2022 | 216,000 |
Source: Business Register and Employment Survey
Notes:
1.These data are available from Table 2.5 of the Scottish Government Industry Statistics Database: Industry statistics - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
2.Estimates are rounded to the nearest thousand.
3.Estimates include all employee jobs within VAT/PAYE registered enterprises, and also working owners of VAT/PAYE registered enterprises. However, the employment jobs estimate does not include those that are self-employed in enterprises that are not registered for VAT/PAYE i.e. the smallest sole traders/partnerships.