§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the availability of unemployment statistics on a parliamentary constituency basis to professional bodies and other external organisations.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe recent development to provide unemployment data by parliamentary constituencies was publicised in an article in the September 1984 edition ofEmployment Gazette, which included the figures for August. As indicated in that article, these statistics are made available to those who request them.