§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many members of ethnic minority groups in (a) the Wolverhampton area and (b) the West Midlands were unemployed at the latest convenient date; if these can be broken down into sex and age groups; and how these figures compare with May 1979.
§ Mr. Peter Morrison[pursuant to his reply, 3 February 1981]: The numbers of unemployed ethnic minority group workers are collected quarterly in February, May, August and November but are analysed by age groups only annually in February.
The following table gives the numbers of unemployed ethnic minority group workers at 13 November 1980, the latest date for which information is available, and at 10 May 1979, for the areas specified.
the additional requirements of special measures, most of them in the special programmes division of the commission. Until plans have been finished it is not possible to say where those staff will be placed.