§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people are now registered as unemployed on the Special Executive and Professional Register ; and how this compares with the same period over the past 10 years.
§ Mr. Dudley Smith: The numbers of unemployed people on the Professional and Executive Register at 9th June, 1971, and at June in each of the previous 10 years were as follows :
1971 23,939 1970 16,013 1969 14,413 1968 14,368 1967 11,865 1966 7,816 1965 7,398 1964 9,006 1963 10,551 1962 8,954 1961 6,483 The figures for 1961 excluded people on the Technical and Scientific Register, which was embodied in the Professional and Executive Register in 1962.