§ Mr. Lawsonasked the Minister of Labour if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the ratio of wholly unemployed persons to notified unfilled vacancies for each of his administrative regions as at January, 1964, and at the latest date available.
§ Mr. WhitelawFollowing is the information:
Region Ratio of wholly unemployed to unfilled vacancies with wholly unemployed at 100 13th January, 1964 13th April, 1964 London and South Eastern 96 145 Eastern and Southern 100 149 South Western 51 93 Midlands 87 162 Yorkshire and Lincolnshire 55 91 North Western 31 46 Northern 10 18 Scotland 11 14 Wales 29 44 Great Britain 48 76