§ Mr. Wattasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the unemployment rate in each year from 1970, inclusive, in the following employment areas: Aberlour, Banff, Buckie, Cullen, Dufftown and Keith.
§ Mr. GoldingRates of unemployment are calculated for employment office areas either singly or grouped to form travel-to-work areas. Between June 1970 and June 1976 the offices at Turriff and Keith closed. The following table shows the percentage rates of unemployment for the areas specified as currently constituted:
§ Mr. Tebbitasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) what advice he has given to employers concerning the implementation of the £6 pay limit increase in relation to its applicability to persons having more than one source of income;
(2) whether the Government's pay policy requires employers to discover which of their employees have other sources of income and to restrict payment of the £6 per week wage increase limit in the light of such other income;
(3) whether the Government's pay policy requires that where a person has income from two or more sources such income should be aggregated when consideration is given to his eligibility for pay increases.
§ Mr. BoothMy predecessor made clear to the House on 23rd July 1975—[Vol. 96, c. 685.]—that no one earning £8,500 a year or more should take an increase of any kind in the period of 239W the current policy, and this guidance was published in my Department's "Employment News". Employers have been advised by my Department on inquiry that the obligation to ensure compliance where earnings are derived from more than one source rests on the individual employee concerned.