§ Mr. Litherlandasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many young people in Manchester have never had a job since leaving school.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonAt 15 April there were 3,848 registered unemployed young people under 18 years of age in the Manchester travel-to-work area who had not entered employment since completing full-time education.
§ Mr. Litherlandasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many redundancies in Manchester have been notified to the Manpower Services Commission since May 1979; and how many firms were involved.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThere are no comprehensive statistics of redundancies. The number of redundancies, in groups of 10 or more, reported to the Manpower Services Commission as due to occur in the city of Manchester between May 1979 and March 1982 inclusive, is 20,362, including provisional figures for March 1982.
The number of firms in which these redundancies occurred is not available except at disproportionate cost.