§ 43. Mr. W. Hamiltonasked the President of the Board of Trade what additional employment has arisen from new industrial building, approved in the first two years of the operation of the Local Employment Act, in England, Wales and Scotland, respectively; what these figures represent as a percentage of the total additional employment; and how these percentages compare with the respective percentage proportions of the total unemployment, taking the average monthly figure from April, 1960, to March, 1962.
§ Mr. ErrollIndustrial development certificates issued in the first two years of the Local Employment Act are estimated by the firms concerned to give rise to an additional employment in Great Britain of 217,000. One hundred and seventy-three thousand, or 80 per cent. of the to"tal are in England; 18,000 or 8 per cent. in Wales and 26,000 or 12 per cent. in Scotland. Of the total average unemployed of 352,000 over the same period, England's percentage was 724, Wales's 7.2 and Scotland's 20.4.