§ Mr. Knoxasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were unemployed at the most recent count in each of the employment areas in the Leek parliamentary constituency; and how these figures compare with those obtaining in the same months in 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1975.
§ Mr. GoldingFollowing is the information available:
§ Mr. GoldingI regret that separate earnings information is not available for every occupation. However, in each of the 120 occupations for which 1976 New Earnings Survey results were published, average weekly earnings for a full-time adult male worker in April 1976, net of tax and national insurance deductions appropriate to a married man with a wife and three children under 11 years of age, were higher than the unemployment benefit entitlement, from 15th November, of such a man when unemployed.