§ Sir W. Elliottasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will state the number and categories of skilled vacancies in the shipbuilding and ship repairing industry in the Northern Region on the latest available date.
§ Mr. John FraserAt November 1975 there were 130 notified unfilled vacancies in shipbuilding and ship repairing at employment offices in the North Region and seven at careers offices. The figures relate only to vacancies notified to employment offices and careers offices and are not a measure of total vacancies. I regret that the monthly figures do not identify vacancies for particular occupations on an industrial basis. There are separate quarterly analyses by occupation but these figures do not identify industries.