§ Mr. Ian McCartneyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to her answer of 29 January,Official Report, column 560, if she will identify the labour market data and pre-existing documents; and if this information is available to hon. Members in the Library. [13357]
§ Mr. ForthMy reply of 29 January explained the considerations that were taken into account when selecting the pilot areas. Information on claimant unemployment rates for travel-to-work areas is published in theEmployment Gazette. Other information on claimant unemployment, such as small area statistics by duration, is available on the NOMIS database, to which the Library has access.
§ Mr. McCartneyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to her answer of 29 January,Official Report, column 560, if she will identify by name the other travel-to-work areas which were considered for the project work scheme; and what are the respective rates of unemployment and very long-term unemployment in these travel-to-work areas. [13358]
§ Mr. ForthOfficials considered all travel-to-work areas, according to the criteria explained in my reply of 29 January. The following list shows the travel-to-work areas which were under consideration as at October 1995, and from which the final two were chosen
- Birmingham
- Bolton and Bury
- Bournemouth
- Bradford
- Brighton
- Bristol
- Cardiff
985 - Chesterfield
- Coventry and Hinkley
- Derby
- Doncaster
- Dudley and Sandwell
- Dundee
- Edinburgh
- Glasgow
- Hastings
- Heathrow
- Hertford and Harlow
- Hull
- Lanarkshire
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Liverpool
- Manchester
- Mansfield
- Medway and Maidstone
- Middlesborugh
- Newcastle upon Type
- Newport
- Norwich
- Nottingham
- Plymouth
- Portsmouth
- Preston
- Rotherham and Maxborough
- Sherffield
- Slough
- South Tyneside
- Southampton
- Southend
- Stockton on Tees
- Stoke
- Sunderland
- Swansea
- Wakefield and Dewsbury
- Walsall
- Watford and Luton
- Wigan and St. Helens
- Wirral and Chester
- Wolverhampton
Information on claimant unemployment rates for travel-to-work areas is published in the Employment Gazette. Other information on claimant unemployment, such as small area statistics by duration, is available on the NOMIS database, to which the Library has access.
§ Mr. McCartneyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to her answer of 29 January,Official Report, column 610, if she will publish details of correspondence and telephone calls received in support of the Medway Hull travel-to work areas being chosen to pilot the project work scheme. [13359]