§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing those employment exchange areas in the United Kingdom where more than 10 per cent. of those registered have been unemployed for more than 12 months and for more than two years.
§ Mr. GoldingThe numbers unemployed for more than 52 weeks are collected quarterly for each employment office and careers office but are not subdivided to show those registered for more than two years. Percentages of the sort requested have not been calculated and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the average number of weeks that an unemployed person is on the jobcentre register; and if he will give his answer by United Kingdom region.
§ Mr. GoldingFigures are not available for the average length of time spent on the unemployment register for a person who has completed a period of unemployment. Data are compiled for the median length of time spent on the unemployment register by persons still unemployed on the date of the count. The following table gives details for each United Kingdom region, on the four dates during the past year for which statistics 369W are available, relating to local offices of the Employment Service Agency and
UNEMPLOYED REGISTERED AT LOCAL OFFICES OF THE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE AGENCY AND THE NORTHERN IRELAND DEPARTMENT OF MANPOWER SERVICES Region January 1977 Median length of time registered as unemployed April 1977 Median length of time registered as unemployed July 1977 Median length of time registered as unemployed Number of weeks October 1977 Median length of time registered as unemployed South-East … … … 16.7 18.1 16.9 16.9 East Anglia … … … 16.1 19.3 19.6 17.6 South-West … … … 18.5 21.9 20.9 18.1 West Midlands … … 22.5 23.1 21.6 22.5 East Midlands … … 19.8 21.6 20.5 19.6 Yorkshire and Humberside … 20.0 21.6 20.0 18.8 North-West … … … 21.4 23.4 22.3 22.2 North … … … … 22.4 24.3 23.0 21.9 Wales … … … … 20.6 22.9 21.9 20.3 Scotland … … … 18.7 21.5 20.1 20.1 Northern Ireland* … … 21.8 23.6 25.7 23.6 * In Northern Ireland the figures relate to December 1976, March 1977, June 1977 and September 1977.
§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is his estimate of the number of young people under the age of 21 years now unemployed in each region of the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. GoldingThe following table gives the numbers under 20 years of age who were registered as unemployed at the date of the last half-yearly age analysis. Information for those under 21 years of age is not available. Except for Northern Ireland, for which the figures relate to the count made on 9th June, the information is for 14th July.
South-East 95,053 East Anglia 10,631 South-West 29,538 West Midlands 51,783 East Midlands 25,985 Yorks and Humberside 43,454 North-West 74,674 North 42,009 Wales 28,256 Scotland 54,818 Northern Ireland 13,595
§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the current level of professional and executive unemployment compared with one and two years ago.
§ Mr. GoldingThe following table gives the numbers of unemployed people in Great Britain who were registered at employment offices for managerial and professional occupations at 8th September, the latest date for which this information is available.
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September 1975 66,089 September 1976 89,024 September 1977 120,420 the Northern Ireland Department of Man power Services.
From June 1977 these figures have been compiled by computer processes which provide more detailed and accurate information. This change could have accounted for about 5,000 of the increase in the figures between September 1976 and September 1977.
§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment what percentage of total United Kingdom and Great Britain unemployment, respectively, Scotland has taken in each of the past five years.
§ Mr. GoldingIn the following table the annual average numbers unemployed in Scotland are expressed as percentages of the corresponding figures for the United Kingdom and Great Britain.
United Kingdom per cent.) Great Britain (per cent.) 1973 15.7 16.5 1974 14.0 14.8 1975 11.5 12.0 1976 11.3 11.7 1977 (January—November) 12.3 12.8
§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) what is his estimate of the net job loss in Scotland since March 1974 to the latest available date;
(2) what is his estimate of the net job loss in Scotland since December 1975.
§ Mr. Gregor MacKenzieI have been asked to reply to the hon. Member.
Figures of employees in employment relating to March 1974 are not available but the latest provisional estimates 371W indicate that between June 1974 and June 1977 the number of employees in employment in Scotland decreased by about 14,000 or 0.7 per cent. Between December 1975 and June 1977 the fail was about 4,000.