§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a
Unemployed Notified unfilled vacancies Employment Offices Careers Offices Males Females Males Females Males Females South East … … … 153,227 29,292 39,551 25,258 7,591 7,065 East Anglia … … … 17,606 3,762 2,743 2,113 541 497 South West … … … 53,024 11,137 6,388 6,057 948 1,115 West Midlands … … … 66,150 16,549 4,614 2,706 1,743 1,317 East Midlands … … … 40,150 8,798 5,260 3,455 918 957 Yorkshire and Humberside … … … 59,478 11,490 6,554 4,992 1,681 1,495 North West … … … 114,231 21,967 7,735 6,263 1,086 1,587 North … … … 58,514 13,534 6,454 4,338 551 885 Wales … … … 41,460 9,357 3,086 2,870 606 691 Scotland … … … 77,738 23,852 9,996 8,563 1,780 1,757 Northern Ireland … … … 27,557 10,949 2,084 1,050 651 525 The vacancy statistics relate only to vacancies notified to employment offices and careers offices, and are not a measure of total vacancies. Because of possible duplication, the figures for employment offices and careers offices should not be added together.