Mr. W. E. Garrettasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many instrument artificers are registered as unemployed in the Northern region.
§ Mr. AlisonAt 10 December 1981, the latest date for which the information is available, there were 98 unemployed people registered at employment offices in the Northern region for employment in precision instrument maintaining and repairing occupations, excluding watch and clock repairers.
§ Mr. Campbell-Savoursasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many jobs in total are supported by the temporary short-time working compensation scheme for (a) each of the travel-to-work areas that comprise the county of Cumbria, (b) the Northern region, and (c) the North-West region, for the last month for which statistics are available.
§ Mr. AlisonThe following table shows the figures requested:
January 1982 Area Number of potentially redundant jobs covered in applications that were current in January 1982 Furness travel-to-work area NIL Kendal travel-to-work area 23 Whitehaven travel-to-work area 107 Workington travel-to-work area 370 Carlisle employment office area 21 Keswick employment office area NIL Penrith employment office area NIL Northern region 1,304 North-West region 23,758