§ Mr. Mulleyasked the Minister of Education if, following the new arrangements for awards for post-graduate study announced in Circular 315, he will set up a committee or working party to consider the practicability of instituting a similar method of concentrating awards on a national basis for undergraduate study thereby avoiding many of the difficulties
NUMBERS OF PERSONS UNEMPLOYED FOR MORE THAN EIGHT WEEKS AT THE UNDER-MENTIONED DATES EXPRESSED AS PERCENTAGES OF THE TOTAL NUMBERS OF WHOLLY UNEMPLOYED PERSONS AT THOSE DATES Region 11th October, 1954 10th October, 1955 15th October, 1956 London and South Eastern … … … 25.3 23.7 25.2 Eastern … … … 32.3 29.3 35.5 Southern … … … 27.9 27.9 29.7 South Western … … … 35.9 32.0 34.7 Midland … … … 20.5 16.5 32.1 North Midland … … … 31.8 30.5 34.2 East and West Ridings … … … 38.3 34.0 38.7 North Western … … … 38.8 34.4 40.5 Northern … … … 43.9 42.9 44.1 Scotland … … … 51.2 48.9 50.7 Wales … … … 48.7 46.2 48.4