§ Mr. Gwynfor Evansasked the Minister of Labour if he will state the number of mineworkers who have been retrained in Government training centres during the last 12 months in Wales and Scotland, respectively.
§ Mr. HattersleyIn Wales 95 workers whose last employment was in coalmining 309W entered training during 1966 and 43 completed training during the year. The corresponding figures for Scotland are 141 and 98.
§ Mr. Gwynfor Evansasked the Minister of Labour, (1) how many mineworkers made redundant by closures during the last 12 months in Wales and Scotland, respectively, have left those two countries;
(2) how many miners made redundant by closures during the last 12 months in Wales and Scotland, respectively, are still unemployed.
§ Mr. FernyhoughOn 12th December, 1966, 597 workers discharged as a result of colliery closures were registered as unemployed in Wales, and 139 in Scotland. I regret that the other information asked for is not available.
§ Mr. Gwynfor Evansasked the Minister of Labour if he will publish the numbers of men unemployed in the coal mining industry in each of the years 1946 to 1966 in Wales and Scotland, respectively, and express them as percentages of the total number of male industrial workers in those two countries.
§ Mr. FernyhoughFollowing is the information:
NUMBERS OF MEN REGISTERED AS UNEMPLOYED IN DECEMBER EACH YEAR AT EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGES IN WALES, AND SCOTLAND, WHOSE LAST EMPLOYMENT WAS IN THE COAL MINING INDUSTRY; AND PERCENTAGES THAT THEY FORMED OF ALL MALE EMPLOYEES (EMPLOYED AND UNEMPLOYED) IN THESE COUNTRIES Wales Scotland Numbers Per cent. Numbers Per cent. 1946 … 6,215 1.14 2,014 0.18 1947 … 4,741 0.84 1,307 0.11 1948 … 4,314 0.63 1,357 0.10 1949 … 4,033 0.60 1,809 0.13 1950 … 2,728 0.39 1,130 0.08 1551 … 1,679 0.24 700 0.05 1952 … 1,439 0.21 650 0.05 1953 … 953 0.14 633 0.05 1954 … 727 0.11 565 0.04 1955 … 574 0.08 369 0.03 1956 … 592 0.09 333 0.02 1957 … 682 0.10 483 0.03 1958 … 990 0.14 758 0.05 1959 … 1,289 0.19 1,274 0.09 1960 … 708 0.10 875 0.06 1961 … 650 0.09 709 0.05 1962 … 972 0.14 2,825 0.20 1963 … 803 0.12 2,230 0.16 1964 … 689 0.10 1,412 0.10 1965 … 1,019 0.15 960 0.07 1966 … 1,525 0.22 987 0.07