§ Mr. Roperasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT figures showing the current number of unemployed persons in the Farnworth constituency, and the number unemployed in the same area in the comparable month in 1930, 1935, 1940, 1945, and for each subsequent year.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithFigures on a comparable basis are available from 1948. In the following table, information is shown for November of each year from that date:
Numbers registered as unemployed in the area covered by the Farnworth and Worsley Employment Exchanges November, 1948 161 November, 1949 154 November, 1950 120 November, 1951 122 November, 1952 983 November, 1953 256 November, 1954 207 November, 1955 272 November, 1956 214 November, 1957 384 November, 1958 798 November, 1959 674 November, 1960 299 November, 1961 449 November, 1962 514 November, 1963 493 November, 1964 315 November, 1965 272 November, 1966 424 November, 1967 610 November, 1968 750 November, 1969 644 November, 1970 758 November, 1971 (Provisional) 1,500