§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list by age band the number of long-term unemployed registered at Scottish jobcentres in 1979, 1983 and 1984 to the latest available date.
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§ Mr. Allan Stewart[pursuant to his reply, 29 June 1984, c. 542]: The information requested is shown in the table. The figures for 1979 are derived from the average in Scotland of the quarterly analyses of people registered as unemployed for over 52 weeks. The corresponding figures for 1983 and 1984 show the number of claimants who had been unemployed for more than 52 weeks and are not directly comparable with those for 1979 because of the change to a claimant based count in October 1982.
Average long term unemployment by age-band for Scotland 1979 1983 1984 17 years and under 870 2,210 3,182 18 years 648 5,350 6,070 19 years 1,466 7,034 7,847 20 to 24 years 5,879 23,369 25,362 25 to 29 years 4,756 14,936 16,306 30 to 34 years 4,113 11,358 12,389 35 to 44 years 7,873 19,517 21,469 45 to 54 years 9,104 19,809 21,979 55 to 59 years 5,251 12,535 14,196 60 years and over 5,906 6,118 2,028 Note:
Averages for 1979 and 1983 are based on the quarterly analyses for January, April, July and October. Averages for 1984 are based on the analyses for January and April, the latest date for which information is available.