HC Deb 02 March 1993 vol 220 cc125-6W
Mr. Tyler

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if she will list in order the top 100 travel-to-work areas in England in terms of highest male, female and total unemployment figures for the latest month available.

Mr. McLoughlin

Claimant unemployment rates for the areas requested can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the Library.

Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment, pursuant to her answer of 23 February,Official Report, column 570, if she will break down the overall figures on non-manual worker unemployment, by region.

Mr. McLoughlin

[holding answer 1 March 1993]: The regional breakdown of non-manual workers who are unemployed on the internationally standard ILO definition is given in the following table.

thousands
Region Number
Great Britain 822,000
Northern 40,000
Yorkshire and Humberside 52,000
East Midlands 54,000
East Anglia 26,000
South East 332,000
—Greater London 163,000
—Rest of South East 169,000
South West 70,000
West Midlands 72,000
North West 75,000
Wales 27,000
Scotland 74,000

Source: Summer (June-August) 1992 Labour Force Survey (not seasonally adjusted).

Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many places were available on the employment training scheme in the current year and in each preceding year; in each year, how many trainees started the course; how many completed it; and how many got jobs at the end of it in each year.

Mr. McLoughlin

[holding answer 1 March 1993]: The information requested is given in the following table.