§ 17. Mr. Flanneryasked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the latest unemployment figures; and how they compare with the same period in the previous year.
§ Mr. BoothAt 8 March, the provisional number of people registered as unemployed in Great Britain was 1,339,806, compared with 1,398,980 at March 1978, a drop of 59,174 on the figure for last year.