§ Mr. Masonasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many persons are now unemployed in the South Yorkshire travel-to-work area; how many are (a) men, (b) women, (c) young persons and (d) disabled; and how many in each category have been unemployed for over 12 months.
§ Mr. AlisonThe following table gives, for the South Yorkshire metropolitan county, the available information for unemployed claimants at January 1983—the latest date for which an analysis by age and duration of unemployment is available—and at February 1983. The figures include school leavers and are not seasonally adjusted. The statistics do not separately distinguish the numbers of unemployed disabled people.
January 1983 Number of whom, unemployed for over 52 weeks Total unemployed 96,380 37,338 Males 70,048 30,613 Females 26,332 6,725 Aged under 20 years (included in above) 19,371 3,827
February 1983 Total unemployed Males Females 95,211 69,381 25,830
§ Mr. Masonasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many persons are now employed in the Barnsley travel-to-work area; how many are (a) men, (b) women, (c) young persons and (d) disabled; how many have been unemployed for over 12 months; and if he will give the figures for each category at this time of year in 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982, respectively.
§ Mr. AlisonThe following table gives, for the Barnsley travel-to-work area, the numbers registered as unemployed at January each year from 1979 to 1982 and at October 1982. It also gives the available information for unemployed claimants at October, 1982, January 1983 and February 1983. The figures include school leavers and are not seasonally adjusted. The claimants based figures from October 1982 do not separately distinguish the numbers of unemployed disabled people.
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Total unemployed number included in total who were:- Male Female Aged under 20 years Disabled Unemployed for more than 52 weeks Registered unemployed January 1979 5,671 4,152 1,519 1,092 490 1,512 January 1980 5,626 3,849 1,777 1,101 466 1,648 January 1981 9,745 6,763 2,982 2,378 559 2,210 January 1982 11,961 8,399 3,562 3,054 567 3,998 October 1982 12,603 8,472 4,131 3,528 606 4,938 Unemployed claimants October 1982 12,924 8,895 4,029 3,351 * 4,856 January 1983 13,295 9,210 4,085 3,000 * 5,195 February 1983 13,028 9,088 3,940 * * * * Not available.