§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many persons have been unemployed longer than (a) six months and (b) 12 months in (i) Wolverhampton, (ii) the West Midlands and (iii) the country as a whole at the latest available date; and if he will give the corresponding figures for June 1980, June 1979 and June 1981 and the increase each year in percentage terms.
§ Mr. Alison[pursuant to his reply, 19 July 1982, c. 34]: The numbers registered as unemployed are analysed by duration of unemployment in January, April, July and October. The following table gives the numbers unemployed for the lengths of time specified and the percentage changes between comparable dates.
§ Mr. Alison[pursuant to his reply, 19 July 1982, c. 34]: At 15 April, the latest date for which the quarterly figures are available, 53.2 per cent. of unemployed males aged 55 years and over in the Wolverhampton employment 89W office area had been on the register for over 52 weeks. The corresponding figure for the West Midlands region was 47.4 per cent.