§ Mr. Probertasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity if she will give the latest figures of disabled unemployed registering at the Mountain Ash and Aberdare employment exchanges.
§ Mr. FernyhoughOn 8th April, 1968 75 registered disabled persons were registered as unemployed at the Mountain Ash and 139 at the Aberdare employment exchange.
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§ Mr. Probertasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity (1) if she will give the latest available figures of the registered unemployed in the Mountain Ash and Aberdare employment exchanges; and what percentage this represents of the insured population; and
(2) if she will give as a percentage of the insured population the number of unemployed men in the Mountain Ash and Aberdare employment exchanges.
§ Mr. FernyhoughIn the area covered by Mountain Ash and Aberdare Employment Exchanges, there were at 8th April, 1968, 973 persons (858 men, 21 boys, 80 women and 14 girls) registered as unemployed. Of the estimated number of all employees, employed and unemployed, in the area, the total number registered as unemployed and the number of men registered as unemployed formed 4.1 and 3.6 per cent., respectively.