HC Deb 20 November 1974 vol 881 cc431-2W
Mr. Ovenden

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the industrial dispute at BP Refinery, Isle of Grain, Rochester, Kent and on the progress which his officers have achieved in their discussions.

Mr. Booth

There is nothing I can at present add to the reply which my right hon. Friend gave last Friday to the hon.

express the number of unemployed females as a proportion of the number of vacancies.

Mr. John Fraser

The current series of unemployment statistics started in 1948 and the following table shows the figures for each October from that year. The vacancy figures relate only to vacancies notified to Employment Offices and Careers Offices and do not measure the total number of vacancies.

and learned Member for Dover and Deal (Mr. Rees).—[Vol. 881, c. 753–5.]