HC Deb 20 July 1982 vol 28 cc83-4W
Mr. David Young

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people in the Bolton travel-to-work

TABLE 1
Expenditure
Actual outturn Estimate
Financial years 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82
£ million £ million £ million £ million £ million
Temporary Employment Subsidy 219.4 133.1 40.9 0.9
Temporary Short Time Working Compensation Scheme 24.4 365.0 *388.5
Job Release Scheme 19.3 21.7 85.4 136.0 166.7
Small Firms Employment Subsidy 2.5 11.8 45.4 10.8
Job Creation Programme 91.7 76.9 4.9 0.5 0.1
Youth Employment Subsidy 6.4 3.7
Adult Employment Subsidy 0.2 0.4
Short Time Working Compensation Scheme for Textile, Footwear and Clothing Industry 0.9
Special Temporary Employment Programme 9.3 51.0 45.7
Community Enterprise Programme 99.4
Community Industry 11.7 17.0 19.0 22.0
Youth Opportunities Programme 62.7 121.8 212.3 412.1
* Actual outturn is likely to be substantially below this.

area have been out of work for more than 12 months; how this compares with the same period in 1978–79; and if he will publish figures showing how these compare with figures for the North West and Great Britain at the same dates.

Mr. Peter Morrison

The following table gives the numbers of unemployed people who at April 1978, April 1979 and April 1982 had been registered for more than 52 weeks.

April 1978 April 1979 April 1982
Bolton travel-to-work area 1,368 1,542 5,984
North West Region 56,946 60,088 152,154
Great Britain 332,311 346,795 949,679

Mr. Strang

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what was the percentage increase in unemployment in the United Kingdom from July 1981 to July 1982.

Mr. Alison

Between July 1981 and July 1982 the numbers of people registered as unemployed in the United Kingdom increased by 11.9 per cent.