§ 30. Mr. R. W. Elliottasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity if she will give the latest figure of those unemployed in the Northern Region ; how many of these are men ; and if she will make a statement.
§ Mr. DellAt 13th October, 1969 there were in the Northern Region 61,727 persons registered as unemployed, of whom 49,528 were men.
The number of men unemployed has declined by about 2,000 over the past year, but the Government still regard the level of unemployment in the north as unacceptably high. They are confident that the determined and wide-ranging measures they have taken to reduce it will have increasing effect.