§ Mr. Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the number of unemployed persons in Scotland at March 1983 or at the latest available date who 352W had exhausted their entitlement to unemployment benefit; and if he will express the figures as a percentage of all unemployed registrants at the same date.
§ Dr. BoysonThe numbers of unemployed claimants in Scotland, and of those of them who have exhausted their entitlement to unemployment benefit, can be obtained from the Quarterly Analysis of Unemployed Claimants, which is in the Library of the House. The latest Quarterly Analysis is that for February 1983; that for May 1983 is expected to be available shortly.