PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Engineering: Foreign Nationals (8 March 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many employees in the UK engineering sector are from countries outside the EU; and if he will estimate the total contribution of such employees to (a) GDP, (b) turnover of engineering employers and (c) GVA in the last 12 months.

Asked by:
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour)

It is not possible to answer the questions as there is no agreed statistical definition of what is meant by the term “engineering sector”.

Answered by:
Anna Soubry (The Independent Group for Change)
15 March 2016