§ MR. Richard Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report a table to show the number of job vacancies which have been notified to each jobcentre in the region of West Yorkshire for each month since June 1980.
§ Mr. Jim LesterThe following table gives the numbers of notified vacancies remaining unfilled at each employment office in the West Yorkshire metropolitan county at the dates specified. Vacancies notified to employment offices are estimated to be about one-third of all vacancies in the county as a whole.
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Employment Office/Jobcentre June 1980 July 1980 August 1980 September 1980 October 1980 November 1980 (provisional) Halifax 181 173 124 126 114 115 Hebden Bridge 13 10 10 23 17 16 Hemsworth 9 8 18 19 10 8 Horsforth 67 57 32 42 36 36 Huddersfield 291 272 192 177 224 155 Hunslet 84 62 54 37 53 45 Keighley 165 136 128 100 99 103 Knottingley 38 26 36 27 18 9 Leeds 1,187 870 622 636 616 609 Leeds Professional and Executive Office 141 103 112 119 159 164 Morley 127 81 89 45 52 64 Nonnanton 36 31 22 8 13 16 Otley 96 71 42 43 61 30 Pontefract 56 44 42 38 44 32 Rothwell 47 33 24 28 14 40 Seacroft 95 51 69 49 35 21 Shipley 58 43 34 27 28 31 South Elmsall 18 15 17 22 8 9 Sowerby Bridge 30 17 47 12 19 25 Spen Valley 53 35 35 33 33 29 Todmorden 23 23 17 15 13 16 Wakefield 280 214 157 148 144 130 Wetherby 154 149 96 94 80 66 Yeadon 56 55 54 37 42 30 West Yorkshire Metropolitan County 4,465 3,611 2,980 2,678 2,635 2,465