HC Deb 29 July 1982 vol 28 cc664-6W
Mr. Pendry

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the unemployment rate in each of the travel-to-work areas which lost their assisted area status in his recent review.

Mr. Alison

[pursuant to his reply, 28 July 1982]: The following table gives the provisional rates of unemployment at 8 July for the areas specified in the recent review carried out by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Industry:

Per cent.
South-West
Okehampton 10.5
East Midlands
Alfreton 16.5
Sutton in Ashfield 10.5
Worksop 12.8
*Chesterfield 14.4
*Buxton 11.8
Horncastle 11.2
Louth 11.7
West Midlands
Oswestry 12.5
Yorkshire and Humberside
Driffield 7.5

Per cent.
Filey 5.4
Harrogate 8.4
Huddersfield 13.5
Keighley 13.3
Malton 6.9
Northallerton 10.6
Pickering 6.0
Ripon 9.2
Selby 11.0
Skipton 7.0
Thirsk 8.2
Todmorden 15.0
York 8.1
*Castleford 13.6
*Dewsbury 15.2
*Halifax 13.1
*Leeds 12.3
*Sheffield 13.5
*Wakefield 11.9
North West
*Accrington 16.6
*Ashton under Lyne 15.0
Barnoldswick 11.7
*Blackburn 15.2
*Burnley 13.6
*Bury 14.8
Chester 13.2
Clitheroe 6.0
*Crewe 10.9
Macclesfield 10.8
*Manchester 14.0
*Nelson 15.6
*Oldham 15.8
*†Ormskirk 23.8
*Preston 13.0
*Warrington 15.4
North
*Furness 11.8
*Kendal 7.3
Barnard Castle 11.7
Berwick 11.0
Carlisle 11.7
Hexham 9.8
Keswick 8.4
Penrith 9.8
Haltwhistle 13.6
Wales
Aberystwyth 10.7
Barmouth 11.3
Brecon 8.7
Carmarthen 7.2
Llandeilo 12.4
Llandrindod Wells 11.2
Machynlleth 13.0
Newtown 15.6
Tywyn 14.4
Welshpool 12.0
Scotland
Aberdeen 7.1
Banff 9.3
Buckie 16.2
Cupar 11.2
*Dumfries 13.3
*Edinburgh 11.8
Elgin 12.4
Eyemouth 14.2
Forfar 11.9
Fraserburgh 13.1
Galashiels 8.1
Haddington 9.2
Hawick 9.3
Huntley 9.5
Kelso 6.9
Montrose 10.3
Peebles 8.3

Per cent.
Perth 9.7
Peterhead 11.0
St. Andrews 10.4
* Travel-to-work area comprising two or more employment office areas.
† Skelmersdale New Town, which is part of the Ormskirk travel-to-work area, will retain Special Development Area Status.