§ Mr. Richard Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report a table to show the numbers of disabled people registered at the employment offices in (a) Oldham, (b) Huddersfield, (c) Kirklees, (d) Greater Manchester and (e) West Yorkshire; and whether, for each case, he will express their numbers as a percentage of the total number of unemployed in that area.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe information requested is shown below. The figures are the latest available and are in respect of 11 December 1980.
Unemployed disabled people (registered as disabled) Percentage of total unemployed (a)Oldham 593 (303) 8.4 (b) Huddersfield 750 (248) 10.6 (c) Kirklees 1,642 (508) 11.6 (d) Greater Manchester 9,462 (4,749) 7.6 (e) West Yorkshire 8,122 (3,148) 9.1
§ Mr. Richard Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many firms in the areas served by employment offices in (a) Oldham and (b) Huddersfield are currently employing the 3 per cent. quota of registered disabled people under the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944.
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§ Mr. Peter MorrisonOn 1 June 1980, the latest date for which information is available, 57 employers in Oldham and 108 employers in Huddersfield employed registered disabled people in a proportion of at least 3 per cent. of their work forces. These figures represent 42.5 per cent. and 41.5 per cent. respectively of all employers who were subject to the provisions of the quota scheme for the employment of registered disabled people in the areas served respectively by Oldham and Huddersfield jobcentres. The comparable figure for all such employers in Great Britain was 35.1 per cent.
§ Mr. Pawseyasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many disabled people were unemployed in December 1980.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThere were 165,624 disabled people registered as unemployed on 11 December 1980.