§ Mr. David Watkinsasked the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of redundancies notified to his Department for the Consett travel-to-work 453W area in the 12 months following May 1979.
§ Mr. Jim LesterI shall reply to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
§ Mr. David Watkinsasked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the numbers and percentages of unemployed male and female registered disabled persons in the Consett travel-to-work area.
§ Mr. Jim LesterI am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that the information requested is set out below. The figures are for 8 May 1980, the latest date for which information is available, and the unemployment rate expresses the number of unemployed registered disabled people as a percentage of all those on the disabled persons register in each category.
Number of unemployed registered disabled people Unemployment rate amongst registered disabled people Per cent. Males 211 20.6 Females 28 19.2 239 20.5