HC Deb 08 December 1980 vol 995 cc231-2W
Mr. Winnick

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the total number of registered unemployed in the Walsall travel-to-work area and the percentage of unemployed each year from 1971 onwards, including the figures so far for 1980.

Mr. Jim Lester

The following table gives for the Walsall travel-to-work area the numbers registered as unemployed and the percentage rates of unemployment, where available, at November each year.

November each year Number Percentage rate
1971 6,144 4.1
1972 5,423 3.5
1973 3,201 2.0
1974 * *
1975 8,459 5.5
1976 * *
1977 9,532 5.6
1978 9,404 5.6
1979 10,037 5.9
1980 19,347 11.4
* Not available.

Note: The figure for November 1979 and November 1980 are not Manpower Services Commission for the allocation of the extra places, so it is not possible to estimate CI's scale of activity in the West Midlands during 1981–82.