§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing Scottish unemployment for each July and August from 1964 to 1975.
§ Mr. GoldingThe following table shows the numbers registered as unemployed in Scotland, not seasonally adjusted and including school leavers:
July August 1964 … … 72,938 73,048 1965 … … 57,780 59,581 1966 … … 53,278 55,435 1967 … … 78,622 80,678 1968 … … 77,930 78,103 1969 … … 76,066 77,300 1970 … … 88,398 91,411 1971 … … 126,230 130,308 1972 … … 132,400 134,807 1973 … … 91,989 91,573 1974 … … 86,760 89,687 1975 … … 122,775 127,046
§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is his estimate at the latest available date of the number of jobs now available in the Scottish economy, and how this compares with the position three and five years ago.
§ Mr. GoldingThe following table shows estimates of the numbers of employees in employment in Scotland at June 1971, June 1973 and December 1975, the latest date for which figures are available. Also shown are the numbers of unfilled vacancies at these dates and at July 1976. The vacancy figures relate only to those notified in employment offices and careers offices and are not a measure of total vacancies. Because of possible duplication, the figures for the 251W two vacancy series shown from December 1975 should not be added together.
Employees in employment(000's) Unfilled vacancies At employment careers At offices offices June 1971 2,003 12,023 June 1973 2,050 23,909 December 1975 2,072* 13,687 1,923 July 1976 — 14,529 1,712 * Provisional.