§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing male and female unemployment in percentage and number terms in Glasgow for each October in 1945, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1959, 1964, 1966, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1975.
§ Mr. John FraserThe following table shows information from 1950, the earliest352W Italian as main subjects in 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1975.
§ Mr. MulleyFollowing are the numbers of candidates applying through the Universities Central Council on Admissions—UCCA—for admission to Universities in the United Kingdom, stating German, Spanish or Italian as subject of first choice. Statistics of applications to read these subjects in combination with others are not readily available except for combined French/German, included below.
year specified for which statistics on the current basis are available.
GLASGOW TRAVEL-TO-WORK AREA Number unemployed Percentage rate of unemployment October Males Females Males Females 1950 16,393 4,936 3.9 2.2 1951 12,155 5,233 2.9 2.3 1955 10,680 3,513 2.7 1.5 1959 21,658 5,643 5.6 2.5 1964 18,182 4,463 4.9 1.9 1966 15,793 3,327 4.5 1.4 1970 26,102 3,846 8.0 1.7 1971 35,966 5,858 10.6 2.7 1972 36,707 6,277 11.2 2.9 1973 23,443 3,367 7.2 1.5 1974 23,275 3,275 7.2 1.5 1975 30,045 6,256 9.3 2.8
§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the latest figures for the numbers of unemployed and the percentage unemployment rate for males and females for Great Britain and for each of the regions; and if he will list the regions in rank order according to the increase in the percentage rate of unemployment in the past year.
§ Mr. John FraserThe following table shows the information available. The most recent figures of the unemployed are for November 1975. Owing to industrial action at local offices of the Employment Service Agency full details of the unemployed are not available from October 1974 to December 1974. The regions have, therefore, been ranked according to the increase in the rate of unemployment since January 1975.
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November 1975 Increase in percentage rate January 1975 to November 1975 Numbers Unemployed Percentage Rate Males Females Total Males Females Total West Midlands … 91,707 27,782 119,489 6.5 3.1 5.2 +2.5 Wales … … … 55,031 15,709 70,740 8.5 4.2 6.9 +2.2 South-West … … 70,285 20,868 91,153 7.5 3.4 5.9 +2.0 North-West … … 137,606 35,256 172,862 8.2 3.2 6.2 +1.9 Yorkshire and Humberside 78,380 20,146 98,526 6.2 2.6 4–8 +1.6 North … … … 67,375 20,136 87,511 8.3 4.1 6.7 +1.5 South-East … … 206,836 53,828 260,664 4.7 1.8 3.5 +1.4 East Anglia … … 22,523 5,914 28,437 5.4 2.2 4.2 +1.4 East Midlands … 49,507 13,496 63,003 5.4 2.3 4.2 +1.4 Scotland … … 95,733 32,029 127,762 7.4 3.7 5.9 +1.1 Great Britain … 874,983 245,164 1,120,147 6.3 2.7 4.9 +1.6