§ 37. Mr. McNamaraasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the current number of persons unemployed in the Hull travel-to-work area; what percentage of the working population in the area this represents, both absolutely and by sex; and how the absolute and the separate sex percentages compare with the national average.
§ Mr. John FraserFollowing is the information at January 1976:
which I am responsible are responding to the pressures and demands that are placed upon them, and I took the opportunity of assuring representatives of the staff of my full support when I met them last week. Morale is certainly not improved by unfair attacks on the size and efficiency of the Civil Service when staff, especially those in local offices, are having heavy additional burdens placed upon them in their task of providing services to the public.