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Mr. Golding
I regret that the full information could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The following table, however, shows for each employment office area in Scotland the numbers unemployed at July 1971 and at July 1976 and the percentage increase or
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decrease in these numbers from July 1971 to July 1976.
| Employment Office area and numbers registered as unemployed |
|
July |
July |
| Aberdeen (including Banchory) |
3,282 |
3,186 |
| Percentage change -2.9 |
|
|
| Airdrie |
2,148 |
2,660 |
| Percentage change +23.9 |
|
|
| Alexandria |
1,021 |
1,290 |
| Percentage change +26.3 |
|
|
| Alloa |
948 |
1,628 |
| Percentage change +71.7 |
|
|
| Annan |
632 |
534 |
| Percentage change -15.5 |
|
|
| Anstruther |
114 |
198 |
| Percentage change +73.7 |
|
|
| Arbroath |
|
|
| (including Carnoustie) |
955 |
987 |
| Percentage change +3.4 |
|
|
| Ayr |
1,454 |
3,340 |
| Percentage change +129.7 |
|
|
| Banff (including Turriff) |
503 |
488 |
| Percentage change -3.0 |
|
|
| Barrhead |
1,203 |
1,566 |
| Percentage change +30.2 |
|
|
| Bathgate |
1,712 |
2,259 |
| Percentage change +32.0 |
|
|
| Bellshill |
906 |
1,518 |
| Percentage change +67.5 |
|
|
| Blairgowrie |
204 |
314 |
| Percentage change +53.9 |
|
|
| Blantyre |
716 |
932 |
| Percentage Change +302 |
|
|
| Bo'ness |
405 |
606 |
| Percentage change +49.6 |
|
|
| Brechin |
183 |
188 |
| Percentage change +2.7 |
|
|
| Bridgeton |
3,486 |
2,303 |
| Percentage change -33.9 |
|
|
| Broxburn |
352 |
444 |
| Percentage change +26.1 |
|
|
| Buckie |
229 |
240 |
| Percentage change +4.8 |
|
|
| Burntisland |
151 |
153 |
| Percentage change +1.3 |
|
|
| Cambuslang |
551 |
877 |
| Percentage change +59.1 |
|
|
| Campbeltown |
450 |
520 |
| Percentage change +15.6 |
|
|
| Carluke |
201 |
287 |
| Percentage change +42.8 |
|
|
| Castle Douglas |
292 |
465 |
| Percentage change +59.2 |
|
|
| Clydebank |
2,993 |
3,130 |
| Percentage change +4.6 |
|
|
| Coatbridge |
2,419 |
2,915 |
| Percentage change +20.5 |
|
|
| Cowdenbeath |
1,428 |
1,637 |
| Percentage change +14.6 |
|
|
| Crieff |
116 |
202 |
| Percentage change +74.1 |
|
|
| Cumbernauld |
745 |
1,342 |
| Percentage change +80.1 |
|
|
| Cumnock |
688 |
1,273 |
| Percentage change +85.0 |
|
|
| Cupar |
231 |
368 |
| Percentage change +59.3 |
|
|
| Dalkeith |
815 |
1,131 |
| Percentage change +38.8 |
|
|
| Denny |
393 |
790 |
| Percentage change +101.0 |
|
|
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| Dingwall |
|
|
| (including Invergordon) |
748 |
935 |
| Percentage change +25.0 |
|
|
| Dumbarton |
883 |
1,120 |
| Percentage change +26.8 |
|
|
| Dumfries |
|
|
| (including Lockerbie) |
1,1057 |
1,519 |
| Percentage change +43.7 |
|
|
| Dundee |
6,287 |
7,687 |
| Percentage change +22.3 |
|
|
| Dunfermline |
1,229 |
1,942 |
| Percentage change +58.0 |
|
|
| Dunoon |
163 |
315 |
| Percentage change +93.3 |
|
|
| East Kilbride |
1,059 |
2,309 |
| Percentage change +118.0 |
|
|
| Edinburgh (including Leith and Portbello) |
8,850 |
12,417 |
| Percentage change +40.3 |
|
|
| Elgin (including Lossiemouth and Keith) |
703 |
973 |
| Percentage change +38.4 |
|
|
| Eyemouth |
246 |
276 |
| Percentage change +12.2 |
|
|
| Falkirk |
1,836 |
2,310 |
| Percentage change +25.8 |
|
|
| Forfar |
246 |
404 |
| Percentage change +64.2 |
|
|
| Forres (including Grantown-on-Spey) |
183 |
256 |
| Percentage change +39.9 |
|
|
| Fort William |
267 |
367 |
| Percentage change +35.5 |
|
|
| Fraserburgh |
323 |
369 |
| Percentage change +14.2 |
|
|
| Galashiels |
344 |
442 |
| Percentage change +28.5 |
|
|
| Girvan |
229 |
391 |
| Percentage change +70.7 |
|
|
| Glasgow Commercial and Executive Office |
414 |
1,127 |
| Percentage change +172.2 |
|
|
| Glasgow South Side |
4,989 |
6,352 |
| Percentage change +30.9 |
|
|
| Glenrothes |
824 |
1,465 |
| Percentage change +77.8 |
|
|
| Govan |
2,876 |
2,854 |
| Percentage change -0.8 |
|
|
| Grangemouth |
485 |
683 |
| Percentage change +40.8 |
|
|
| Greenock |
2,563 |
3,130 |
| Percentage change +22.1 |
|
|
| Haddington |
319 |
330 |
| Percentage change +3.4 |
|
|
| Hamilton (includling Strathavon) |
2,048 |
2,325 |
| Percentage change +13.5 |
|
|
| Hawick |
284 |
577 |
| Percentage change +103.2 |
|
|
| Helensburgh |
207 |
519 |
| Percentage change +150.7 |
|
|
| Hillington |
364 |
799 |
| Percentage change +119.5 |
|
|
| Huntly |
156 |
166 |
| Percentage change +6.4. |
|
|
| Inverkeithing |
112 |
201 |
| Percentage change +79.5 |
|
|
| Inverness |
1,159 |
1,349 |
| Percentage change +16.4 |
|
|
| Inverurie |
138 |
139 |
| Percentage change +0.7 |
|
|
| Irvine |
697 |
1,310 |
| Percentage change +87.9 |
|
|
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| Employment Office area and numbers registered as unemployed |
|
1971 |
1976 |
| Johnstone |
1,320 |
1,672 |
| Percentage change +26.7 |
|
|
| Kelso (including Jedburgh) |
178 |
93 |
| Percentage change -0.8 |
|
|
| Kilbirnie |
257 |
685 |
| Percentage change +166.5 |
|
|
| Kilmarnock (including Stewarton) |
1,770 |
2,523 |
| Percentage change +42.5 |
|
|
| Kilsyth |
402 |
415 |
| Percentage change +3.2 |
|
|
| Kilwinning (including Dalry) |
353 |
604 |
| Percentage change +71.1 |
|
|
| Kinning Park |
1,090 |
950 |
| Percentage change -12.8 |
|
|
| Kirkcaldy |
1,313 |
1,973 |
| Percentage change +50.3 |
|
|
| Kirkintilloch |
569 |
763 |
| Percentage change +34.1 |
|
|
| Kirkwall |
148 |
280 |
| Percentage change +89.2 |
|
|
| Lanark |
481 |
717 |
| Percentage change +49.1 |
|
|
| Largs |
155 |
206 |
| Percentage change +32.9 |
|
|
| Larkhall |
770 |
926 |
| Percentage change +20.3 |
|
|
| Lerwick |
170 |
211 |
| Percentage change +24.1 |
|
|
| Lesmahagow |
417 |
410 |
| Percentage change -1.7 |
|
|
| Leven and Methil |
1,370 |
1,507 |
| Percentage change +10.0 |
|
|
| Linlithgow |
141 |
181 |
| Percentage change +28.4 |
|
|
| Loanhead (including Penicuick) |
613 |
1,039 |
| Percentage change +69.5 |
|
|
| Lochgilphead |
108 |
165 |
| Percentage change +52.8 |
|
|
| Maryhill |
4,066 |
3,859 |
| Percentage change -5.1 |
|
|
| Montrose |
287 |
262 |
| Percentage change -8.7 |
|
|
| Motherwell |
1,381 |
2,012 |
| Percentage change +45.7 |
|
|
| Musselburgh (including North Berwick) |
833 |
1,064 |
| Percentage change +27.7 |
|
|
| Nairn |
94 |
113 |
| Percentage change +20.2 |
|
|
| Newmilns |
167 |
196 |
| Percentage change +17.4 |
|
|
| Newton Stewart |
250 |
427 |
| Percentage change +70.8 |
|
|
| Oban* |
472 |
363 |
| Percentage change -23.1 |
|
|
| Paisley |
2,906 |
3,394 |
| Percentage change +16.8 |
|
|
| Parkhead & Easterhouse |
6,918 |
9,357 |
| Percentage change +35.3 |
|
|
| Partick |
2,672 |
3,945 |
| Percentage change +47.6 |
|
|
| Peebles |
125 |
109 |
| Percentage change -12.8 |
|
|
| Perth (including Pitlochry) |
923 |
1,677 |
| Percentage change +81.7 |
|
|
| Peterhead |
525 |
392 |
| Percentage change -25.3 |
|
|
| Port Glasgow |
938 |
1,441 |
| Percentage change +53.6 |
|
|
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| Employment Office area and numbers registered as unemployed |
|
July |
July |
| Portree |
116 |
143 |
| Percentage change +23.3 |
|
|
| Renfrew |
378 |
722 |
| Percentage change +91.0 |
|
|
| Rothesay |
154 |
245 |
| Percentage change +59.1 |
|
|
| Rutherglen |
1,362 |
2,908 |
| Percentage change +113.5 |
|
|
| Saltcoats |
1,613 |
2,165 |
| Percentage change +34.2 |
|
|
| Sanquhar |
266 |
348 |
| Percentage change +30.8 |
|
|
| Shotts |
525 |
680 |
| Percentage change +29.5 |
|
|
| Springburn |
5,859 |
6,129 |
| Percentage change +4.6 |
|
|
| St. Andrews |
142 |
264 |
| Percentage change +85.9 |
|
|
| Stirling |
1,094 |
1,841 |
| Percentage change +68.3 |
|
|
| Stonehaven |
88 |
120 |
| Percentage change +5.9 |
|
|
| Stornoway* |
1,016 |
1,201 |
| Percentage change +18.2 |
|
|
| Stranraer |
491 |
795 |
| Percentage change +61.9 |
|
|
| Thurso |
361 |
572 |
| Percentage change +58.4 |
|
|
| Tranent |
299 |
415 |
| Percentage change +38.8 |
|
|
| Troon |
131 |
306 |
| Percentage change +133.6 |
|
|
| Uddingston |
742 |
944 |
| Percentage change +27.2 |
|
|
| West Calder (including Livingstone) |
665 |
1,672 |
| Percentage change +151.4 |
|
|
| Wick |
651 |
776 |
| Percentage change +19.2 |
|
|
| Wishaw |
1,527 |
2,163 |
| Percentage change +41.7 |
|
|
| * Part of the area covered by Oban Employment Office area in July 1971 is now covered by Stornoway EO. |
It is not proposed that the Scottish administration will have direct responsibility for employment matters, and it is not possible at this stage to say what effect the transfer of responsibility for certain services will have on levels of unemployment in Scotland.