§ Mr. David Youngasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table from 1974 onwards showing unemployed insured persons in Great Britain indicating the percentage of unemployed in each year and the registered unemployed in each region; and if he will take steps to compile a similar table of those unemployed but not registered.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonFigures and rates of registered unemployment for Great Britain are published in table 2.2 of the current issue of theEmployment Gazette, for 1975 to date; and in table 2.3 for individual regions from 1976 to date. Figures for earlier years can be found in earlier issues of the gazette.
Estimates of the numbers of persons in Great Britain who were unemployed but not registered for the years 1975, 1977 and 1979 are published in table 6, page 172 of the Employment Gazette for April 1981. Estimates for individual regions are not available. Concerning estimates of the unregistered unemployed for later years I have nothing to add to the answer I gave the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, North-East (Mrs. Short) today.