§ 15. Mr. Radiceasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is his estimate of the numbers who have been out of work for over a year and over two years, respectively.
§ Mr. GummerAt October 1982, the latest date for which the information is available, the number of unemployed claimants in the United Kingdom who had been unemployed for over 52 and up to 104 weeks was 595,000. The corresponding figure for those unemployed for over 104 weeks was 434,000.