§ Mr. AltonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the numbers of people unemployed for more than five years in each of the travel-to-work areas.
§ Mr. LeeThe following information is also in the Library. The table shows the number of unemployed claimants who had been unemployed for more than five years in October 1988, the latest available date, for each of the travel-to-work areas in Great Britain.
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Number of claimants unemployed for more than five years in each travel-to-work area in Great Britain Travel-to-work area Number of unemployed claimants Andover 57 Ashford 196 Aylesbury and Wycombe 270 Banbury 148 Basingstoke and Alton 156 457W
Travel-to-work area Number of unemployed claimants Bedford 231 Bicester 34 Brighton 1,184 Canterbury 171 Chelmsford and Braintree 229 Chichester 120 Clacton 202 Colchester 332 Crawley 200 Dover and Deal 155 Eastbourne 200 Folkestone 213 Gosport and Fareham 234 Guildford and Aldershot 335 Harwich 69 Hastings 277 Hertford and Harlow 632 Hitchin and Letchworth 193 Isle of Wight 330 Medway and Maidstone 1,282 Milton Keynes 308 Newbury 46 Oxford 525 Portsmouth 1,151 Reading 297 Sittingbourne and Sheerness 349 Slough 390 Southampton 1,064 Southend 1,705 Thanet 420 Tunbridge Wells 195 Watford and Luton 1,245 Winchester and Eastleigh 122 Worthing 234 Beetles and Halesworth 72 Bury St. Edmonds 63 Cambridge 259 Cromer and North Walsham 107 Diss 49 Fakenham 58 Great Yarmouth 396 Haverhill 37 Huntingdon and St. Neots 113 Ipswich 474 King's Lynn and Hunstanton 340 Lowestoft 241 Newmarket 112 Norwich 876 Peterborough 590 Sudbury 59 Thetford 124 Wisbech 182 Woodbridge and Leiston 71 Heathrow 1,744 London 23,676 Barnstaple and Ilfracombe 149 Bath 299 Bideford 75 Blandford 21 Bodmin and Liskeard 133 Bournemouth 480 Bridgwater 188 Bridport 30 Bristol 2,056 Bude 43 Chard 41 Cheltenham 274 Chippenham 99 Cinderford and Ross on Wye 248 Cirencester 47 Dartmouth and Kingsbridge 38 Devizes 30 Dorchester and Weymouth 120 Exeter 398 Falmouth 109 Gloucester 413
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Travel-to-work area Number of unemployed claimants Helston 85 Honiton and Axminster 78 Launceston 49 Minehead 42 Newquay 30 Newton Abbot 109 Okehampton 25 Penzance and St. Ives 142 Plymouth 1,208 Poole 207 Redruth and Camborne 291 Salisbury 141 Shaftesbury 51 South Molton 18 St. Austell 157 Stroud 182 Swindon 478 Taunton 211 Tiverton 55 Torbay 330 Torrington 30 Totnes 32 Trowbridge and Frome 186 Truro 114 Wareham and Swanage 27 Warminster 20 Wells 104 Weston super Mare 254 Yeovil 152 Birmingham 12,398 Burton-on-Trent 374 Coventry and Hinckley 3,412 Dudley and Sandwell 5,458 Evesham 105 Hereford and Leominster 316 Kidderminster 390 Leek 47 Ludlow 87 Malvern and Ledbury 129 Oswestry 80 Rugby and Daventry 235 Shrewsbury 291 Stafford 287 Stoke 1,700 Telford and Bridgnorth 1,066 Uttoxeter and Ashbourne 55 Walsall 2,718 Warwick 386 Whitchurch and Market Drayton 119 Wolverhampton 2,895 Worcester 457 Alfreton and Ashfield 435 Boston 164 Buxton 87 Chesterfield 1,010 Corby 216 Derby 1,494 Gainsborough 127 Grantham 143 Horncastle and Market Rasen 75 Kettering and Market Harborough 160 Leicester 1,806 Lincoln 683 Loughborough and Coalville 226 Louth and Mablethorpe 89 Mansfield 533 Matlock 68 Melton Mowbray 86 Newark 220 Northampton 465 Nottingham 3,802 Retford 155 Skegness 87 Sleaford 70
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Travel-to-work area Number of unemployed claimants Spalding and Holbeach 104 Stamford 69 Wellingborough and Rushden 189 Worksop 311 Barnsley 1,274 Bradford 2,548 Bridlington and Driffield 131 Calderdale 612 Castleford and Pontefract 591 Doncaster 1,626 Goole and Selby 202 Grimsby 902 Harrogate 103 Huddersfield 548 Hull 3,135 Keighley 148 Leeds 2,872 Malton 25 Northallerton 48 Pickering and Helmsley 19 Richmondshire 52 Ripon 23 Rotherham and Mexborough 1,978 Scarborough and Filey 162 Scunthorpe 594 Settle 18 Sheffield 4,692 Skipton 36 Thirsk 18 Wakefield and Dewsbury 1,044 Whitby 82 York 459 Accrington and Rossendale 316 Blackburn 622 Blackpool 876 Bolton and Bury 1,982 Burnley 429 Clitheroe 31 Crewe 332 Lancaster and Morecambe 358 Liverpool 14,312 Macclesfield 170 Manchester 9,176 Northwich 363 Oldham 805 Pendle 198 Preston 1,153 Rochdale 679 Warrington 605 Widnes and Runcorn 1,049 Wigan and St. Helens 3,683 Wirral and Chester 3,661 Barrow in Furness 261 Carlisle 372 Kendal 41 Keswick 22 Penrith 52 Whitehaven 268 Windermere 7 Workington 411 Alnwick and Amble 108 Berwick-on-Tweed 42 Bishop Auckland 651 Darlington 519 Durham 643 Hartlepool 965 Hexham 66 Middlesbrough 3,628 Morpeth and Ashington 585 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 6,654 South Tyneside 1,411 Stockton-on-Tees 1,661 Sunderland 4,173 Aberdare 372 Aberystwyth 47 Bangor and Caernarfon 421
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Travel-to-work area Number of unemployed claimants Blaenau Gwent and Abergavenny 646 Brecon 39 Bridgend 539 Cardiff 2,413 Cardigan 73 Carmarthen 88 Conwy and Colwyn 147 Denbigh 56 Dolgellau and Barmouth 35 Fishguard 41 Haverfordwest 247 Holyhead 333 Lampeter and Aberaeron 47 Llandeilo 22 Llandrindod Wells 32 Llanelli 350 Machynlleth 15 Merthyr and Rhymney 804 Monmouth 59 Neath and Port Talbot 352 Newport 994 Newtown 38 Pontypool and Cwmbran 466 Pontypridd and Rhondda 1,008 Porthmadoc and Ffestiniog 38 Pwllheli 48 Shotton Flint and Rhyl 761 South Pembrokeshire 114 Swansea 1,434 Welshpool 32 Wrexham 549 Aberdeen 522 Alloa 291 Annan 72 Arbroath 86 Ayr 572 Badenoch 27 Banff 69 Bathgate 600 Berwickshire 29 Blairgowrie and Pitlochry 73 Brechin and Montrose 78 Buckie 34 Campbel town 86 Crieff 16 Cumnock and Sanquhar 502 Dumbarton 471 Dumfries 182 Dundee 1,630 Dunfermline 414 Dunoon and Bute 92 Edinburgh 2,335 Elgin 86 Falkirk 709 Forfar 76 Forres 28 Fraserburgh 63 Galashiels 59 Girvan 75 Glasgow 12,713 Greenock 974 Haddington 65 Hawick 44 Huntly 21 Invergordon and Dingwall 142 Inverness 255 Irvine 1,092 Islay/Mid Argyll 36 Keith 35 Kelso and Jedburgh 21 Kilmarnock 479 Lanarkshire 3,145 Lochaber 76 Lockerbie 25 Newton Stewart 48
Travel-to-work area Number of unemployed claimants North East Fife 103 Oban 53 Orkney Islands 81 Peebles 23 Perth 180 Peterhead 74 Shetland Islands 25 Skye and Wester Ross 53 Stewartry 51 Stirling 300 Stranraer 117 Sutherland 56 Thurso 58 Western Isles 96 Wick 93