§ Mr. Campbell-Savoursasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the total of young people who have registered at careers offices in each of the travel-to-work areas in Cumbria in the last month for which statistics are available.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonRecords of unemployed young people registered at careers offices are no longer used for the monthly unemployment count, which now relates to claimants at unemployment benefit offices.
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Closures reported as due to occur, May 1979 to September 1983* Birkenhead travel-to-work area Merseyside Special Development Area† Establishments Redundancies involved Establishments Redundancies involved 1 May 1979–30 April 1980 10 187 69 4,676 1 May 1980–30 April 1981 16 456 120 9,232 1 May 1981–30 April 1982 21 1,926 102 5,863 1 May 1982–30 April 1983 10 844 62 4,370 1 May 1983–30 September 1983* 5 176 31 1,370 * Including provisional figures for August and September 1983. † Includes St. Helens up to 31 July 1980. The following table gives the figures for unemployed claimants aged under 18 years on 13 October.
Number Carlisle 621 Furness* 540 Kendal* 96 Keswick 22 Penrith 111 Whitehaven* 403 Workington* 461 *Travel-to-work area comprising two or more jobcentre areas.
§ Mr. Fieldasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the number of persons made redundant since May 1979 in (a) the Birkenhead travel-to-work area and (b) Merseyside; and if he will present these data on a 12 monthly basis starting at May 1979.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe available information on redundancies, involving ten or more employees, reported to the Manpower Services Commission is given in the following table.
Redundancies reported as due to occur Birkenhead Travel-to-Work-Area Merseyside Special Development Area† 1 May 1979–30 April 1980 3,827 14,444 1 May 1980–30 April 1981 8,093 24,000 1 May 1981–30 April 1982 7,954 20,026 1 May 1982–30 April 1983 4,253 13,498 1 May 1983–30 September 1983* 793 7,139 * These statistics include provisional figures for August and September 1983. † Includes St. Helens up to 31 July 1980.
§ Mr. Fieldasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the number of firms and the number of employees involved in firms which have closed since May 1979 in (a) the Birkenhead travel-to-work area and (b) Merseyside; and if he will present these data for each 12 months beginning with May 1979.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe available information on closures and associated redundancies, involving ten or more employees, reported to the Manpower Services Commission is given in the following table.