HC Deb 24 October 1978 vol 955 cc829-30W
Mr. Lawson

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will provide a table showing (a) the total number of vacancies in every quarter since the beginning of 1970, (b) the total number of people unemployed in every quarter since the beginning of 1970 and (c) the figures in column (a) as a percentage of those in column (b).

Mr. Golding

The following table gives the numbers of unfilled vacancies and the numbers registered as unemployed in Great Britain quarterly from 1970. The vacancy statistics relate only to vacancies notified to employment offices and careers offices; vacancies notified to employment offices are estimated to be about one-third of all vacancies in the country as a whole. Because of this and possible duplication between the separate figures for employment offices and careers offices, the two series should not be added together or used to calculate the percentages requested.

Unfilled Vacancies
at Employment Offices at Careers Offices Numbers unemployed
1970
March 184,074 79,866 601,772
June 203,826 91,675 523,638
September 191,562 69,334 563,147
December 159,328 51,600 604,286
1971
March 130,206 48,618 700,040
June 144,644 53,133 687,219
September 124,777 44,017 796,278
December 107,142 31,607 867,588
1972
March 118,520 39,138 924,677
June 155,525 47,326 765,456
September 157,830 47,462 822,969
December 179,876 45,544 743,099
1973
March 244,461 62,367 682,637
June 323,250 95,954 544,957
September 353,487 123,518 526,894
December 348,240 108,038 484,296
1974
March 266,523 85,791 590,071
June 336,368 111,091 514,632
September 307,203 91,658 617,810
December * * *
1975
March 178,024 42,931 768,423
June 158,996 34,811 828,473
September 140,786 26,807 1,096,902
December 101,035 19,679 1,152,499
1976
March 106,910 21,226 1,234,573
June 124,837 27,719 1,277.884
September 139,347 25,596 1,395,115
December * * 1,316,000
1977
March 142,522 22,895 1,328,081
June 166,804 27,012 1,390,401
September 158,953 21,055 1,541,844
December 152,608 16,729 1,419,726
1978
March 184,173 24,101 1,398,980
June 225,949 30,557 1,381,403
September 231,150 29,998 1,446,708
* Information is not available because of industrial action by some staff in the Department of Employment Group.

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