§ Mr. Hordernasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the number of unemployed, and jobs vacant, on 1 February each year in Crawley, for the last 10 years, and the ratio of unemployed to employed in each of those years.
§ Mr. Jim LesterThe following table gives the numbers registered as unemployed and the numbers of notified vacancies remaining unfilled in the area covered by the Crawley employment office. The vacancy statistics relate only
Number unemployed in the Crawley employment office area Unemployment rate in the Crawley travel to work area Per cent. Unfilled vacancies At employment offices At careers offices February 1971 271 0.8 ֵ ֵ February 1972 412 1.2 395 100 February 1973 208 0.8 774 117 February 1974 193 0.8 985 168 February 1975 414 1.2 ֵ ֵ February 1976 760 2.2 258 31 February 1977 985 2.5 319 17 February 1978 1,090 2.5 636 55 February 1979 1,185 2.5 798 129 February 1980 1,109* 2.3 610 86 The figures relate to the various count dates each February, not to the first day of the month. * The February 1980 unemployment figure may be affected by the introduction in September 1979, of fortnightly attendance and payment of benefit. Estimates are not available for individual local areas, but for the country as a whole the figures are about 1½ per cent. higher than they would have been under weekly attendance.