asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if he will provide information on the proportion of the industrial work force in the member states of the EEC employed in public enterprise; the total capitalisation of such enterprise; the range of industrial sectors covered; and if he will compare these figures with the latest data for Denmark, Norway, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - EEC Public Enterprise Employment.
34.
As the reply consists largely of tabular statements I propose, with your permission, a Cheann Comhairle to circulate a statement with the Official Report.
Following is the statement :
Proportion of industrial work force employed in public enterprise in EEC member countries and in applicant countries, capitalisation of such enterprise and the range of industrial sectors covered.
Statistics available in respect of the various countries are not calculated on the same basis and comparisons between countries must be treated with reserve.
EEC Countries
The latest information available in the case of member countries of the EEC is in a study prepared by the European Centre for Public Enterprise based on statistics for the year 1963. Employment in public enterprise in each member country and the percentage which it represents of total employment by public and private enterprise is shown in the attached table.
The main manufacturing industries in which the public sector participated were construction of motor vehicles and aircraft in France, shipbuilding and manufacture of motor vehicles in Germany, metal industry in Holland, metal industry and manufacture of transport equipment in Italy. Public participation in manufacturing industry is negligible in Belgium and Luxembourg.
Information is not available about the capitalisation of public industrial enterprise in the EEC. In 1963 public enterprise accounted for 25 per cent of the total amount devoted to investment by the industrial and commercial sectors in the EEC.
EMPLOYMENT IN PUBLIC ENTERPRISE
Numbers and percentage of total public and private enterprise
|
Country |
Germany |
France |
Italy |
Belgium |
Holland |
Luxembourg |
||||||
|
Sector |
Number 000 |
Percentage of total public and private |
Number 000 |
Percentage of total public and private |
Number 000 |
Percentage of total public and private |
Number 000 |
Percentage of total public and private |
Number 000 |
Percentage of total public and private |
Number 000 |
Percentage of total Public and private |
|
Energy |
324 |
45 |
360 |
90 |
121 |
41 |
16 |
14.5 |
79 |
84.5 |
0.5 |
76.7 |
|
Industry (including building and construction) |
169 |
2.2 |
163 |
2.3 |
244 |
6.3 |
— |
— |
22 |
1.3 |
0.02 |
0.03 |
|
Transport and communications |
1,106 |
3.3 |
713 |
65 |
475 |
62 |
152 |
64 |
132 |
46.2 |
5 |
59.7 |
Notes:—
Energy includes coal mining, gas, electricity and oil refining (other than the petrochemical industry).
Industry includes building and construction for each country and also extractive industries in the case of Germany.
By a State industrial enterprise the European Centre for Public Enterprise mean an enterprise wholly or mainly financed by the State. An industrial i ndustrial enterprise in which the State had a minority shareholding, would be regarded as a public enterprise if the shareholding was sufficient to give the State effective overall control of the enterpris e (e.g. where the balance of the shareholding was fragmented.)
United Kingdom
Information is not available in strictly comparable form. The following table gives the information in the form in which it is available for June, 1969.
Employment in Public enterprise June, 1969.
|
Total employment 000 |
Public enterprise 000 |
Public enterprise as percentage of total |
|
|
Mining and quarrying |
445 |
382 |
86 |
|
Manufacturing |
8,923 |
396 |
4.4 |
|
Construction |
1,493 |
157 |
10.5 |
|
Public utilities (including transport) |
1,982 |
1,405 |
71 |
A break-down is not available of the manufacturing industries in which public enterprise is engaged. However, iron and steel would account for a substantial proportion of the total employment by public enterprise.
Information is not available about the capitalisation of public enterprise.
Norway
Employment in Public Enterprise: 1969.
|
Sector |
Total employment 000 |
Public enterprise 000 |
Public enterprise as percentage of total |
|
Mining |
366 |
1.6 |
23 |
|
Industry |
13.4 |
||
|
Transport and communications |
69.1 |
Share capital in Government owned mining, 560 million kroner; Share capital in Government owned industry, 730 million kroner; Capital in Government owned transport and communications subscribed by State and municipal authorities, 7,500 million kroner.
There are State owned enterprises in steel, aluminium, iron, mining, coal processing and the fish industry. The State also participates directly in mixed State-private owned undertakings.
Denmark
Employment in Public Enterprise 1969.
|
Sector |
Total employment 000 |
Public enterprise 000 |
Public enterprise as percentage of total |
|
Manufacturing |
390 |
1.1 |
0.3 |
|
Public utilities |
— |
16 |
— |
|
Transport and communications |
— |
44 |
— |
Information about capitalisation is not available.
Public participation in manufacturing is mainly in the building and repair of ships for the navy.
Ireland
Employment in Public Enterprise 1966.
|
Sector |
Total employment 000 |
Public enterprise 000 |
Public enterprise as percentage of total |
|
Energy |
17.8 |
14.0 |
78 |
|
Manufacturing and building and construction |
272.5 |
29.3 |
10.7 |
|
Transport and communications (excluding sea transport) |
47.6 |
38.7 |
81 |
Figures are based on the Census of Population 1966 supplemented by information about individual enterprises.
The main manufacturing industries in which public enterprise is engaged are food processing, steel and chemicals.
The assets of semi-State bodies (at book values) engaged in each of the above sectors were as follows (1966 figures) :
Energy, £213 million; manufacturing, £38.3 million; transport and communications, £71.4 million.