§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were unemployed in manufacturing industry in (a) the Wolverhampton travel-to-work area and (b) the Wolverhampton travel-to-work area and (b) the West Midlands in May 1979; and what is the latest available figure.
§ Mr. Jim Lester[pursuant to his reply, 25 November 1980]: At 10 May 1979 the numbers of people registered as unemployed in the Wolverhampton travel-to-work area and in the West Midlands region who last worked in manufacturing industries were 2,797 and 41,552, respectively. The corresponding figures at 14 August 1980, the latest date for which an industrial analysis of the unemployed is available, were 5,536 and 70,847.