HC Deb 14 December 1961 vol 651 cc65-9W
50. Mr. Grey

asked the President of the Board of Trade what number of the 27,500 new jobs in prospect for the northeast are for the Durham constituency.

51. Mr. Ainsley

asked the President of the Board of Trade what number of the 27,500 new jobs in prospect for the northeast are for the Durham, North-West, constituency.

52. Mr. Pentland

asked the President of the Board of Trade what number of the 27,500 new jobs in prospect for the north-east are for the Chester-le-Street constituency.

53. Mr. Slater

asked the President of the Board of Trade what number of the 27,500 new jobs in prospect for the north-east are for the Sedgefield constituency.

54. Mr. Randall

asked the President of the Board of Trade what number of the 27,500 new jobs in prospect for the north-east are for the Gateshead, West, constituency.

55. Mr. Milne

asked the President of the Board of Trade what number of the 27,500 new jobs in prospect for the north-east are for the Blyth constituency.

56. Mr. Owen

asked the President of the Board of Trade what number of the 27,500 new jobs in prospect for the north-east are for the Morpeth constituency.

57. Mr. Stones

asked the President of the Board of Trade what number of the 27,500 new jobs in prospect for the north-east are for the Consett constituency.

58. Mr. Woof

asked the President of the Board of Trade what number of the 27,500 new jobs in prospect for the northeast are for the Blaydon constituency.

59. Mr. Blyton

asked the President of the Board of Trade what number of the 27,500 new jobs in prospect for the north-east are for the Houghton-le-Spring constituency.

60. Mr. McKay

asked the President of the Board of Trade what number of the 27,500 new jobs in prospect for the north-east are for the Wallsend constituency.

61. Mr. Moody

asked the President of the Board of Trade what numbers of the 27,500 new jobs in prospect for the north-east are for the Gateshead, East, constituency.

62. Mr. Fernyhough

asked the President of the Board of Trade what number of the 27,500 new jobs in prospect for the north-east are for the Jarrow constituency.

66. Mr. Grey

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will classify the 27,500 jobs in prospect for the northeast; if he will estimate the time it will take before they become realised; and which areas will benefit.

70. Mr. Short

asked the President of the Board of Trade how many of the 27,500 new jobs in the north-east will be in the city and county of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Mr. Erroll

I am circulating below an analysis of the 27,500 jobs in prospect classified by employment exchange areas or groups of areas.

I have broken down the figure in this way and not by constituencies because the employment exchange area is the administrative unit on which our development districts are based. These exchange areas have been drawn to correspond as far as possible with the local pattern of travel-to-work, so that it may reasonably be inferred that projects will draw most of their labour from the area in which they are sited. But constituency boundaries in many cases cut right across employment exchange boundaries and travel-to-work areas. We have, therefore, often no material for forming a reliable judgment as to the proportion of the labour required for a given project which is likely to be drawn from a given constituency.

The jobs in prospect for an area are the aggregate of the estimates of their labour requirements provided by the firms who have been granted I.D.Cs. or been offered assistance under the Local Employment Act. Jobs which have actually accrued and projects known to have been abandoned have, of course, been deducted. The figures may be exaggerated in that firms tend to overstate the labour they will take on. On

JOBS IN PROSPECT: NORTH EAST EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE AREAS AND GROUPS
Development Districts are shown in italics
Males Females Total
1. Employment Exchange Areas of:
Amble 130 70 200
Alnwick
Berwick
2. Employment Exchange Areas of:
Ashington 100 300 400
Morpeth
3. Employment Exchange Areas of:
Bedlington Station 300 300 600
Blyth
Seaton Delaval
4. Employment Exchange Areas of:
Birtley 3,500 800 4,300
Chester-le-Street
Houghton-le-Spring
Washington Station
5. Groups of Employment Exchange Areas:
Bishop Auckland (Bishop Auckland, Shildon, Crook and Spennymoor) 600 800 1,400
Barnard Castle (Barnard Castle and Middleton-in-Teesdale)
6. Employment Exchange Areas of:
Consett 400 200 600
Stanley
7. Employment Exchange Area of:
Darlington 1,100 200 1,300
8. Employment Exchange Area of:
Durham 100 550 650
9. Employment Exchange Areas of:
Guisborough 60 90 150
Loftus
Saltburn
10. Employment Exchange Areas of:
Haltwhistle 80 120 200
Hexham
Prudhoe
11. Group of Employment Exchange Areas:
Hartlepools (Hartlepools and West Hartlepools) 1,000 500 1,500
12. Employment Exchange Areas of:
Haswell 70 130 200
Horden
Wingate
13. Employment Exchange Areas of:
Malton 180 20 200
Pickering
Scarborough
Stokesley
Whitby

the other hand, they are incomplete in that they take no account either of jobs becoming available outside manufacturing industry or of industrial expansions not requiring any sizeable new building. In these types of case no I.D.C. is needed and so the Board have no information as to the jobs which they will provide.

The jobs, which will arise in a wide variety of different industries, are about two-thirds for males and one-third for females.

Following is the analysis:

Males Females Total
14. Employment Exchange Areas of:
Northallerton 130 120 250
Thirsk
Richmond
part of York (Flaxton Rural District Council)
15. Group of Employment Exchange Areas:
North Tyne East (North Shields, Wallsend, Whitley Bay) 700 400 1,100
16. Group of Employment Exchange Areas:
North Tyne West (Elswick, Newburn, Newcastle, Walker, and West Moor) 750 350 1,100
17. Group of Employment Exchange Areas:
Sunderland (Sunderland, Southwick, and Pallion) 3,300 1,700 5,000
Employment Exchange Area of:
Seaham Harbour
18. Group of Employment Exchange Areas:
South Tyne East (East Boldon, Jarrow and Hebburn and South Shields) 1,300 1,100 2,400
19. Group of Employment Exchange Areas:
South Tyne West (Blaydon, Felling, and Gateshead) 1,200 1,000 2,200
20. Group of Employment Exchange Areas:
Tees-side (Billingham, Middlesbrough, Redcar, South Bank, Stockton and Thornaby) 3,300 450 3,750
18,300 9,200 27,500
Males Females Total
Northumberland 2,060 1,540 3,600
Durham 12,770 7,030 19,800
North Riding 3,470 630 4,100
18,300 9,200 27,500