Mr. Jim Callaghanasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many vacancies are registered in the Greater Manchester area at the latest available date.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonAt 5 December 1980 the numbers of notified vacancies remaining unfilled at38W employment offices and careers offices in the Greater Manchester metropolitan county were 2,341 and 73, respectively.
The figures relate only to those notified to employment offices and careers offices; vacancies notified to employment offices are estimated to be about one-third of all vacancies in the country as a whole. Because of possible duplication the figures for employment offices and careers offices should not be added together.
Mr. Jim Callaghanasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many persons were registered as unemployed at the latest available date in the construction trades in the Greater Manchester metropolitan area.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonAt 13 November 1980, the latest date for which an industrial analysis of the unemployed is available, there were 14,438 people registered as unemployed in the Greater Manchester metropolitan county who last worked in the construction industry.
Mr. Jim Callaghanasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many disabled persons were registered as unemployed at the last available date in the Greater Manchester metropolitan area.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonI am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that, on 11 December 1980, the latest date for which figures are available, there were 9,462 disabled people registered as unemployed in the Greater Manchester metropolitan area.