§ Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity if she will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a table showing the rate of unemployment in Scotland as a percentage of total United Kingdom unemployment in March of each of the last 10 years.
§ Mr. DellI will arrange for this to be done.
Following is the information:
Numbers registered as unemployed in Scotland as percentages of those registered as unemployed in the United Kingdom. Per cent. March, 1970 13.8 March, 1969 13.2 March, 1968 13.9 March, 1967 14.4 March, 1966 17.7 March, 1965 18.2 March, 1964 19.9 March, 1963 16.8 March, 1962 16.6 March, 1961 18.6 My right hon. Friend is responsible for the scientific organisations and institutions listed in column (1) of the following table. The information requested by the hon. Member is given in columns (2) and (3).
Organisations and Institutions (1) Date of publication of last Annual Report (2) Estimated Expenditure in Financial year 1970–1971 (3) Agricultural Research Council … … … October, 1969 … 16,208,000 Medical Research Council … … … July, 1969 … 19,670,000 Natural Environment Research Council … … November, 1969 … 13,919,000 Science Research Council … … … October, 1969 … 49,612,000 Social Science Research Council … … … November, 1969 … 3,264,000 British Museum (Natural History) … … … September, 1969* … 1,745,000† * This report was for the two year period 1966–1968. † Includes provision for capital building.