§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Paymaster General if he will state each annual rate of unemployment in Grimsby from 1979 to the latest available year.
§ Mr. LeeThe following information is in the Library. The table shows annual average unemployment expressed as a percentage of employees in employment plus the unemployed in the Grimsby travel-to-work area for each year from 1979 to 1986. The figures are not comparable over the whole period because of the change in travel-to-work boundaries, and changes in the compilation of the monthly unemployment count.
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Grimsby travel-to-work area Per cent. As defined in 1978 as Unemployed registrants 1979 6.1 1980 8.4 19811 12.6 19822 13.9
Per cent. Unemployed claimants 1983 14.7 As defined in 1984 Unemployed claimants 1984 15.4 1985 16.1 1986 15.2 1 1981 is the average of 10 months. 2 1982 is the average of 10 months only: January to October.
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Paymaster General what has been the annual number of notified redundancies in Grimsby from 1979 to the latest year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. LeeInformation relating to confirmed redundancies is given in the following table:
Redundancies confirmed as due to occur in Grimsby Year Number 1979 0 1980 1,005 1981 1,886 1982 880 1983 1,436 1984 1,081 1985 332 1986 517 NoteThe figures measure redundancies confirmed as due to occur, in groups of 10 or more employees, and are based on follow-up action of employers' notifications of redundancies under the Employment Protection Act 1975. Figures for 1985 are provisional.
§ Mr. Hawksleyasked the Paymaster General how many people were in work in the Telford area in February 1987 and in February 1983; and what percentage of the population this was in each case.
§ Mr. LeeThe latest available information for new towns such as Telford comes from the 1981 census of population and is contained in the "New Towns Report, England and Wales, part 1", ref: CEN 81 NT(1), a copy of which is in the Library.
§ Mr. Hannamasked the Paymaster General if he will list the unemployment figures for Easter for the month of March in each of the years 1975 to 1987.
§ Mr. LeeThe following information is in the Library. The table gives estimates of seasonally adjusted unemployment (excluding school leavers), consistent with the current count, for March of each year from 1975 to 1987 in the United Kingdom.
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Unemployment (excluding school leavers) in the United Kingdom, adjusted for discontinuities and seasonality March thousands 1975 701.8 1976 1,149.6 1977 1,207.6 1978 1,247.5 1979 1,183.8 1980 1,210.2 1981 2,107.0 1982 2,532.3 1983 2,823.7 1984 2,966.4 1985 3,094.8 1986 3,198.6 11987 3,042.9 1 The March 1987 figure is provisional and subject to revision.