§ 21. Mr. Hefferasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many long-term unemployed, namely, those unemployed for more than 12 months, there are on Merseyside and in Liverpool as part of Merseyside.
§ Mr. GoldingAt 12th January, there were 28,199 people in the Merseyside special development area who had been registered as unemployed for more than 52 weeks; of these 25,287 were in the Liverpool travel-to-work area.