§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment, how many (a) men and (b) women were registered as unemployed in December 1980; how this compares with the figures for the last five years in December; and what was the yearly increase decrease over the previous year in each case.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe following table gives the numbers of males and females registered as unemployed in the United Kingdom and the yearly changes at December each year from 1975:
In the Wolverhampton travel-to-work area there were 7,267 potentially redundant jobs being supported in November 1980 under the TSTWC scheme. In the Midlands regions, as a whole, the comparable figure was 82,943.