§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will give the number of registered unemployed and job vacancies on any stated date for each of the months since May 1979 in the parliamentary constituency or area of Warrington.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonFigures are not available for the parliamentary constituency and the following information is for the wider area covered by the Warrington employment office.
Unfilled vacancies Number unemployed At employment office At careers office 1979 May 3,124 430 34 June 3,699 464 22 July 4,457 468 14 August 4,292 478 26 September 4,001 526 25 October 3,767 574 20 November 3,587 487 26 December 3,604 473 23 1980 January 3,890 458 17 February 3,787 449 16 March 3,810 535 30 April 3,948 432 22 May 3,985 342 18 June 4,689 354 12 July 5,810 270 6 August 6,366 300 9
Unemployed Unfilled vacancies Number Percentage rate At employment offices At careers offices Macclesfield employment office area 2,505 8.9 127 6 Crewe travel-to-work area (which includes Congleton) 6,040 9.1 91 9 North-West Region 386,144 13.5 9,397 274 The Crewe travel-to-work area comprises the Crewe, Nantwich, Sandbach and Congleton employment office areas.
The vacancy statistics 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. The number of vacancies unfilled at a particular date takes no account of the flow of vacancies being notified, filled or withdrawn during the preceding month, which would reflect activity more closely.
§ Mr. Strawasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) in respect of the Blackburn travel-to-work
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Unfilled vacancies Number unemployed At employment office At careers office September 6,317 344 7 October 6,367 326 4 November 6,436 527 8 December 6,756 319 4 1981 January 7,266 329 2 February 7,428 463 — March 7,748 449 4 April 7,992 316 3 May 8,153 327 4 June (provisional) 8,737 318 — The vacancy statistics 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.
The number of vacancies unfilled at a particular date takes no account of the flow of vacancies being notified, filled or withdrawn during the preceding month, which would reflect activity more closely. For example, during the past 12 months 5,570 people were placed in jobs by the Warrington employment office and 426 by the careers office. It is estimated that placings by the public employment service form less than a third of all placings.