§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is his latest estimate of the number of people who have been out of work for more than (a) six months and (b) 12 months, by region and by sex.
§ Mr. Jim Lester[pursuant to his reply, 8 August 1980, c. 401–2]: Following is the information at 10 July for each standard region of Great Britain and for Northern Ireland:
§ Mr. Jim Lester[pursuant to his reply. 8 August 1980, c. 403]: The following table gives for July each year from 1975 the numbers registered as unemployed in each employment office area in the West Midlands region. It also gives the percentage rates of unemployment in travel-to-work area and in employment offices areas outside the travel-to-work areas.
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July 1975 July 1976 July 1977 July 1978 July 1979 July 1980 Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage Burton-on-Trent … … 1,372 3.8 1,531 4.3 1,870 5.1 1,984 5.4 1,665 4.5 2,235 5.9 Evesham … … 338 2.5 488 3.7 557 4.0 497 3.5 435 3.1 526 3.7 Hereford … … 1,328 3.7 1,942 5.4 2,250 6.4 2,204 6.1 1,993 5.5 2,376 6.3 Leamington … … 2,136 4.5 2,568 5.4 3,290 6.5 2,638 5.3 2,310 4.6 2,919 5.7 Ledbury … … 179 4.8 232 6.2 273 7.1 254 6.3 194 4.8 240 5.8 Leek … … 661 5.0 744 5.6 851 6.3 664 4.9 818 6.0 1,059 7.8 Leominster … … 274 4.7 417 8.5 408 7.1 467 8.1 383 6.6 421 7.3 Ludlow … … 393 5.2 547 7.2 554 7.3 557 7.2 500 6.5 656 8.5 Market Drayton … … 409 8.9 524 11.4 567 11.8 557 11.2 401 8.1 710 14.3 Oswestry … … 752 5.9 1,041 8.2 1,220 9.3 961 7.2 868 6.5 1,227 8.9 Redditch … … 1,245 4.0 1,819 5.9 2,146 6.7 2,101 6.2 1,748 5.2 2,533 7.3 Ross on Wye … … 261 4.9 407 7.6 449 9.0 371 7.1 313 6.0 390 7.5 Rugby … … 1,091 3.5 1,840 5.9 2,129 6.9 2,190 7.1 2,078 6.7 2,784 9.1 Shrewsbury … … 1,597 4.1 2,120 5.4 2,317 5.7 2,267 5.4 1,898 4.6 2,585 6.2 Stratford-on-Avon … … 608 3.3 761 4.2 716 3.8 675 3.7 700 3.8 768 4.0 Uttoxeter … … 298 4.1 288 4.0 329 4.6 300 4.1 235 3.2 400 5.4 Whitchurch … … 226 4.2 311 5.6 359 6.7 282 5.5 205 4.0 244 4.6 Aston … … 4,086 5,675 4,800 4,331 4,048 5,601 Birmingham … … 5,107 927 860 886 832 1,148 Bromsgrove … … 761 7,328 6,972 6,248 5,904 7,167 Chelmsley Wood … … 1,689 2,504 2,505 2,371 2,190 3,449 Erdington … … —included in Aston— 879 1,264 1,498 1,888 Handsworth … … 3,566 5,541 5,558 4,437 7.0 4,390 6.7 5,763 9.0 Northfield … … —included in Selly Oak— 2,588 3,573 Selly Oak … … 7,146 5.5 8,723 7.6 8,749 7.5 8,438 6,141 7,100 Small Heath … … 7,435 10,903 7.204 5,675 4,664 5,726 Solihull … … 1,632 2,410 2,302 2,008 1,902 2,800 Sparkhill … … —included in Small Heath— 3,647 3,791 3,785 5,479 Sutton Goldfield … … 1,753 1,982 2,373 2,381 2,212 3,830 Tamworth … … 1,098 1,710 1,928 2,181 2,202 2,948 Washwood Heath … … 4,179 5,516 4,859 4,733 4,343 6,081 Bedworth … … 756 1,007 1,023 1,075 1,286 1,641 Coventry … … 11,598 5.9 16,224 8.2 15,342 8.0 13,436 7.3 14,203 7.5 16,471 9.2 Nuneaton … … 2,189 2,800 3,148 3,381 2,903 4,211 Cradley Heath … … 431 608 706 714 820 1,521 Dudley … … 2,277 3,423 3,752 3,591 3,735 5,969 Halesowen … … 473 811 640 712 785 1,107 Kingswinford … … —included in Dudley and Stourbridge— 142 235 183 444 Oldbury … … 681 3.5 1,312 5.2 1,269 5.3 1,337 5.2 1,214 5.1 1,876 7.8 Smethwick … … 1,522 2,453 2,831 2,542 2,291 3,413 Stourbridge … … 1,418 1,863 1,532 1,307 1,262 2,143 Tipton … … 804 1,069 1,177 1,196 1,105 1,659 Wednesbury … … 407 497 518 549 502 926 West Bromwich … … 247 3,136 2,999 3,055 2,910 4.037 150W151W
July 1975 July 1976 July 1977 July 1978 July 1979 July 1980 Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage Kidderminster … … 1,132 3.3 1,993 5.9 2,166 6.6 2,017 6.5 1,750 2,873 8.6 Stourport … … 223 432 533 567 457 5.5 637 Bridgnorth … … 304 351 441 427 400 659 Madeley … … 1,011 6.0 1,137 7.8 1,377 9.1 1,376 9.3 1,310 9.4 2,399 12.5 Oakengates … … 1,334 2,103 2,601 2,718 2,916 3,372 Wellington … … 522 544 769 780 772 1,024 Stafford … … 1,458 3.6 1,770 4.1 2,023 4.3 1,973 3.9 2,012 4.0 2,700 5.4 Stone … … 378 279 245 219 217 285 Biddulph … … 296 304 273 306 291 610 Burslem … … 975 1,583 1,782 1,691 1,898 2,588 Cheadle … … 262 288 289 285 301 404 Hanley … … 1,431 3.4 2,072 4.4 2,245 5.1 2,247 4.8 2,515 5.2 3,525 7.4 Kidsgrove … … 426 466 520 472 557 742 Longton … … 1,396 1,816 1,891 1,958 2,012 3,176 Newcastle-under-Lyme … … 1,675 1,903 2,430 2,113 2,164 3,029 Stoke on Trent … … 585 631 802 691 790 1,085 Aldridge … … —included in Walsall— 175 172 153 748 Brownhills … … 813 893 833 754 734 1,280 Cannock … … 1,513 2,201 2,511 2,637 2,565 3,581 Darlaston … … 478 4.6 777 6.4 725 6.9 948 7.1 688 6.6 817 9.7 Lichfield … … 774 1,013 1,187 1,233 1,160 1,566 Rugeley … … 463 793 771 808 800 1,167 Walsall … … 3,604 4,937 4,683 5,019 4,818 6,690 Willenhall … … 587 863 847 940 860 1,421 Bilston … … 940 1,447 1,350 1,385 1,216 2,003 Wednesfield … … —included in Wolverhampton— 7.8 515 7.5 598 7.6 596 7.5 722 10.3 Wolverhampton … … 6,240 5.2 9,270 8,644 9,036 9,064 12,315 Droitwich … … —included in Worcester— 358 433 442 447 468 Malvern … … 506 3.7 658 5.0 871 6.1 844 5.7 640 4.8 852 6.3 Pershore … … 202 253 325 259 250 283 Worcester … … 1,887 2,154 2,637 2,519 2,116 2,955 Notes: 1 The figures for July 1975 include adult students not present in those for later years. 2 Because of a change in the school-leaving regulations the July figures for 1976 and later years include considerable numbers of school leavers not present in the figures for July 1975. 3 The July 1980 figures are not strictly comparable with those for earlier years because of the introduction, in September 1979, of fortnightly attendance and payment of benefit. Estimates for local areas are not available but for the country as a whole the monthly unemployment figures are about 20,000, or 1½ per cent. higher than under weekly attendance.
§ Mr. Viggersasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many adults and young people have been unemployed for (a) one year and (b) two years in (i) Gosport and (ii) the United Kingdom as
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Total unemployed Unemployed up to 52 weeks Unemployed over 52 and up to 104 weeks Unemployed over 104 weeks Number Number Percentage of total Number Percentage of total Number Percentage of total Gosport employment office area Aged under 18 years 470 470 100 — — — — Aged 18 years and over 1,567 1,373 87.6 94 6.0 100 6.4 United Kingdom Aged under 18 years 368,933 365,338 99.0 3,479 0.9 116 — Aged 18 years and over 1,527,701 1,167,216 76.4 170,490 11.2 189,995 12.4 a whole, giving the figures in numbers and percentages.
§ Mr. Jim Lester[pursuant to his reply, 8 August 1980, c. 402]: Following is the information at 10 July.
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§ Mr. Craigenasked the Secretary of State for Employment what were the numbers of males and females unemployed in each Department of Employment region; and how many and what percentage of those had been unemployed
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Total unemployed Males Unemployed over 26 and up to 52 weeks Unemployed over 52 weeks Total unemployed Females Unemployed over 26 and up to 52 weeks Unemployed over 52 weeks Number Number Percentage of total Number Percentage of total Number Number Percentage of total Number Percentage of total South East 264,220 37,622 14.2 45,413 17.2 112,574 13,083 11.6 11,267 10.0 East Anglia 28,873 4,246 14.7 5,534 19.2 13,460 1,645 12.2 1,439 10.7 South West 76,424 11,606 15.2 18,034 23.6 37,729 5,394 14.3 5,076 13.5 West Midlands 128,612 19,667 15.3 27,979 21.8 67,408 9,487 14.1 8,774 13.0 East Midlands 75,871 11,529 15.2 15,873 20.9 36,534 4,373 12.0 3,700 10.1 Yorkshire and Humberside 116,145 17,848 15.4 25,178 21.7 59,935 8,294 13.8 6,757 11.3 North West 187,911 29,613 15.8 47,967 25.5 95,888 14,869 15.5 13,217 13.8 North 104,720 17,540 16.7 27,973 26.7 52,478 8,996 17.1 6,937 13.2 Wales 75,888 11,732 15.5 17,778 23.4 40,951 6,823 16.7 5,448 13.3 Scotland 150,608 24,924 16.5 37,008 24.6 85,718 16,140 18.8 12,145 14.2 for more than six months and more than one year, at the last count available.
§ Mr. Jim Lester[pursuant to his reply, 8 August 1980, c. 402]: Following is the information at 10 July for Scotland. Wales and the standard regions of England.
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§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the latest figures for the number of (a) lone parents, (b) heads of two-parent families and (c) married women in full-time employment, self-employed and unemployed.
§ Mr. Jim Lester[pursuant to his reply, 8 August 1980, c. 402]: (a) It is estimated that in 1978, the latest year for which estimates have been made, there were approximately 825,000 lone-parent families in Great Britain. Of these, it is further estimated that about a quarter of a million worked full-time and about 160,000 part-time. Estimates of the numbers who were self-employed and unemployed are not readily available.
(b) It is estimated that in 1977 there were 6.4 million two-parent families in Great Britain. Amout 5.3 million family heads were estimated to be full-time employees and about 0.7 million self-employed. Reliable estimates of the numbers unemployed and in part-time employment cannot be made.
(c) Results from the European Community labour force survey indicate that in 1977 there were about 13.7 million married females, 6.5 million of whom were in employment. Of these, the survey shows 2.8 million were full-time employees, 3.3 million part-time employees, 0 .3 million were self-employed and nearly half a million stated that they were out of employment and looking for work, whether or not they were registered for employment with the employment services.
NOTE. For the purpose of this question, families with a lone parent or two parents are defined as those having a dependent child or children aged either under 16 or 16 to 19 but undergoing full-time education.