HC Deb 06 March 1980 vol 980 cc269-79W
Mr. Frank R. White

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what were

SOUTH EAST
Notified unfilled vacancies
Total registered unemployed At Employment Offices At Careers Offices
1978—
February 335,238 73,187 10,015
March 323,294 77,902 12,560
April 320,741 85,082 13,181
May 304,621 93,273 15,728
June 308,744 99,403 15,582
July 334,325 96,451 14,912
August 343,106 93,142 14,140
September 325,059 104,396 16,243
October 303,685 110,225 16,152
November 293,040 105,776 15,728
December 284,246 101,080 15,973
1979—
January 305,373 98,443 14,890
February 302,565 100,717 12,980
March 292,358 104,843 14,978
April 277,881 111,632 17,750
May 267,364 118,541 19,676
June 265,885 122,441 19,314
July 289,991 116,539 18,289
August 292,402 108,014 16,349
September 280,876 111,512 17,015
October* 274,566 111,729 16,299
November 269,498 105,140 14,018
December 267,640 93,963 12,573
1980—
January 294,309 55,489 11,568
February 296,753 80,739 11,175

the numbers of unemployed and notified vacancies for each region of Great Britain for every month from February 1978 to the present, with the vacancies expressed as a ratio of the unemployed.

Mr. Jim Lester

The following table gives the numbers registered as unemployed and the numbers of unfilled vacancies in each region of Great Britain for the months specified.

The vacancy statistics relate only to those 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 of possible duplication between the separate figures for employment offices and careers offices, the two series should not be added together and cannot be used to provide the ratios requested.

EAST ANGLIA
Notified unfilled vacancies
Total registered unemployed At Employment Offices At Careers Offices
1978—
February 38,632 4,843 530
March 37,256 5,496 853
April 36,987 6,704 940
May 35,037 6,678 1,148
June 35,349 6,758 905
July 37,129 6,755 773
August 37,344 6,588 903
September 34,943 7,415 1,088
October 33,315 7,465 1,077
November 33,105 7,142 885
December 32,906 6,579 887
1979—
January 36,235 6,217 801
February 36,350 6,067 756
March 35,483 6,379 1,062
April 33,552 7,777 1,490
May 31,328 8,527 1,693
June 30,835 9,569 1,563
July 31,851 9,251 1,370
August 31,554 8,926 1,121
September 30,274 8,897 1,258
October* 30,335 8,594 1,183
November 30,526 8,216 938
December 30,684 7,187 711
1980—
January 34,056 6,263 584
February 34,786 5,815 532

SOUTH WEST
Notified unfilled vacancies
Total registered unemployed At Employment Offices At Careers Offices
1978—
February 115,993 9,658 897
March 111,754 10,787 1,136
April 109,022 12,791 1,440
May 101,751 14,180 2,130
June 101,812 16,152 1,616
July 108,950 14,828 1,481
August 110,173 14,451 1,402
September 104,137 14,560 1,611
October 102,672 14,919 1,583
November 102,379 14,235 1,473
December 100.125 13,359 1,381
7979—
January 106,336 12,981 1,291
February 105,173 13,398 1,217
March 99,937 14,497 1,369
April 95,255 17,432 1,909
May 89,121 19,550 2,174
June 88,826 21,319 1,766
July 94,693 18,724 1,697
August 94,611 17,367 1,674
September 90,905 18,093 1,762
October* 92,615 17,153 1,453
November 93,839 15,138 1,284
December 93,416 13,617 1,011
1980—
January 99,869 11,942 866
February 100 602 12,541 786

WEST MIDLANDS
Notified unfilled vacancies
Total registered unemployed At Employment Offices At Careers Offices
1978—
February 126,898 11,456 1,674
March 123,707 11,761 2,192
April 125,507 12,339 2,358
May 121,160 12,527 4,445
June 123,399 13,230 4,174
July 148,274 12,697 3,396
August 150,863 12,801 3,015
September 140,315 14,243 2,817
October 129,004 14,585 2,759
November 123,986 14,324 2,309
December 120,405 13,639 2,016
7979—
January 126,001 13,588 2,027
February 125,984 12,909 2,093
March 122,882 13,575 2,589
April 119,328 15,522 3,051
May 117,689 16,069 4,695
June 121,521 16,191 4,603
July 143,111 15,246 3,606
August 141,034 15,457 3,415
September 135,206 15,444 2,613
October* 130,023 14,490 2,197
November 127,573 13,904 1,901
December 126,253 12,545 1,527
1980—
January 133,287 11,849 1,200
February 135,331 11,134 1,250

EAST MIDLANDS
Notified unfilled vacancies
Total registered unemployed At Employment Offices At Careers Offices
1978—
February 81,224 11,619 1,309
March 79,052 11,856 1,690
April 78,828 12,768 1,879
May 75,466 13,370 2,755
June 80,639 13,739 1,778
July 88,556 13,396 1,644
August 87,988 13,268 1,606
September 82,576 14,546 1,864
October 76,988 16,382 1,866
November 74,742 16,413 1,610
December 74,066 15,606 1,506
1979—
January 78,521 15,424 1,370
February 78,817 14,551 1,372
March 77,156 14,559 1,632
April 72,139 16,410 2,252
May 70,882 16,752 2,680
June 74,483 16,431 2,294
July 78,981 15,617 2,144
August 78,356 15,242 2,218
September 74,116 15,397 2,227
October* 73,760 15,262 1,821
November 72,845 14,787 1,624
December 73,769 12,336 1,369
1980—
January 79,713 11,298 1,154
February 82,141 11,210 955

YARKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE
Notified unfilled vacancies
Total registered unemployed At Employment Offices At Careers Offices
1978—
February 124,958 12,418 1,382
March 120,813 12,931 1,835
April 121,726 15,579 1,973
May 117,446 15,091 2,139
June 122,956 15,986 2,454
July 137,374 15,849 2,165
August 140,931 15,229 1,858
September 133,717 16,255 1,940
October 124,014 15,919 1,742
November 120,151 15,554 1,633
December 117,957 15,135 1,530
1979—
January 125,478 14,939 1,455
February 125,380 14,229 1,439
March 122,618 15,073 2,103
April 115,747 16,595 2,881
May 112,917 18,217 4,301
June 116,955 18,717 2,949
July 129,356 17,423 2,602
August 128,490 16,922 1,933
September 122,567 16,556 2,037
October* 119,066 16,114 1,589
November 117,149 14,660 1,274
December 117,837 12,167 1,105
1980—
January 127,733 11,033 967
February 130,542 10,531 874

NORTH WEST
Notified unfilled vacancies
Total registered unemployed At Employment Offices At Careers Offices
1978—
February 213,935 14,145 1,174
March 205,428 14,884 1,550
April 207,290 15,941 1,671
May 199,184 16,657 1,969
June 211,958 17,343 1,427
July 235,156 15,758 1,065
August 237,337 16,875 1,313
September 224,795 18,040 1,673
October 208,889 18,650 1,675
November 203,318 18,162 1,640
December 197,663 17,260 1,612
1979—
January 208,842 16,941 1,458
February 208,507 16,813 1,585
March 200,168 18,266 1,867
April 192,944 20,799 2^11
May 191,066 21,771 2,601
June 200,701 22,461 1,777
July 217,555 20,776 1,764
August 215,784 20,637 1,803
September 206,962 21,298 1,794
October* 200,970 19,965 1,718
November 199,188 18,258 1,478
December 199,301 15,727 1,287
1980—
January 215,530 14,621 1,324
February 217,924 14,047 1,067

NORTH
Notified unfilled vacancies
Total registered unemployed At Employment Offices At Careers Offices
1978—
February 121,402 9,143 633
March 118,159 10,144 683
April 117,040 10,549 640
May 112,109 10,642 1,227
June 122,862 11,140 873
July 132,719 10,264 728
August 132,815 10,691 722
September 126,192 10,981 805
October 119,383 10,951 665
November 117,005 10,483 572
December 116,261 9,998 472
1979—
January 121,647 9,604 480
February 121,309 9,647 503
March 117,755 10,397 476
April 113,154 10,942 628
May 109,636 11,523 744
June 119,095 12,071 625
July 127,781 11,844 547
August 124,994 10,956 547
September 120,308 10,716 718
October* 117,187 10,125 571
November 116,954 9,297 470
December 117,713 8,384 374
1980—
January 125,796 7,984 306
February 128,006 7,177 367

WALES
Notified unfilled vacancies
Total registered unemployed At Employment Offices At Career Offices'
1978—
February 90,794 6,544 418
March 88,479 8,401 408
April 89,481 8,830 448
May 86,845 8,720 478
June 86,534 9,245 528
July 98,098 8,989 456
August 101,037 8,205 508
September 95,088 8,947 676
October 91,351 8,858 488
November 89,209 8,049 471
December 87,860 7,822 399
1979—
January 92,487 7,344 434
February 91,858 7,877 373
March 88,452 8,847 442
April 84,218 9,849 675
May 83,024 11,553 756
June 80,032 11,949 756
July 91,271 10,860 674
August 90,638 10,164 693
September 86,511 9,939 678
October* 85,816 9,566 619
November 85,184 8,714 607
December 85,177 7,906 420
1980—
January 90,864 7,323 391
February 92,075 6,974 311

Notified unfilled vacancies
Total registered unemployed At Employment Offices At Careers Offices
1978—
February 196,789 17,145 844
March 191,038 20,011 1,194
April 180,862 22,330 894
May 171,247 22,854 1,236
June 187,150 22,953 1,220
July 191,906 21,908 1,150
August 192,847 21,009 1,225
September 179,886 21,767 1,281
October 175,606 21,943 1,250
November 173,859 20,081 1,083
December 171,709 18,913 991
1979—
January 190,300 18,108 961
February 191,689 18,615 868
March 182,997 19,659 955
April 175,590 21,677 1,116
May 165,441 23,855 1,639
June 182,769 24,298 1,563
July 187,431 22,624 1,272
August 186,033 22,565 1,244
September 177,244 23,658 1,062
October* 178,489 22,389 953
November 179,528 21,380 893
December 180,250 19,182 904
1980—
January 203,232 16,824 787
February 203,828 17,341 601
* As a result of changing the attendance and payment of benefit from weekly to fortnightly the unemployment figures for October 1979 and later dates were raised by an amount estimated for Great Britain at about 20,000. For this reason figures for earlier dates are not strictly comparable with those for October 1979 and later dates.

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