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In 2008 around 180,000 people in the UK were directly employed in the UK automotive manufacturing sector. [152] In that year the sector had a turnover of £52.5 billion, generated £26.6 billion of exports [153] and produced around 1.45 million passenger vehicles and 203,000 commercial vehicles. [152]
Department for International Trade – preceding body from 2016 to 2023. Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy – preceding body from 2016 to 2023. Department of Trade and Industry – UK government department with a historically similar function from 1970 to 2007.
In the former Eastern Bloc countries, the public sector in 1989 accounted for between 70% and over 90% of total employment. [5] In China a full 78.3% of the urban labor force were employed in the public sector by 1978, the year the Chinese economic reform was launched, after which the rates dropped.
The reports of the Board of Trade are an important form of policy direction for the Department for International Trade. By February 2017, the department employed about 200 trade negotiators. [7] The department was dissolved on 7 February 2023, and its functions and personnel transferred to the new Department for Business and Trade. [8]
The number of projects since the UK left the European Union in the 2020 financial year has fallen by 19% to 1,174. But since then the forecast economic benefits have risen by 128% to £7 billion.
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A 2009 report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, citing data from the UK Office for National Statistics, stated that manufacturing output (gross value added at 2007 prices) has increased in 35 of the 50 years between 1958 and 2007, and output in 2007 was at record levels, approximately double that in 1958.