HC Deb 02 December 1991 vol 200 c20W
23. Mr. Simon Coombs

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on trends in unemployment in Wales.

Mr. David Hunt

Between March 1986 and April 1990 seasonally adjusted unemployment in Wales fell from 172,300 to 83,100—a fall of 51.8 per cent. Unemployment then rose in Wales, like the rest of the United Kingdom, and in September 1991 unemployment stood at 119,900. It is pleasing to note that this trend was broken in October, when there was a fall in seasonally unadjusted unemployment in Wales.