§ Mr. Lawsonasked the Minister of Labour the ratio of registered unemployed to total unfilled vacancies in 109W each of the eleven administrative regions of Great Britain at the latest available date and for the comparable date in 1955.
§ Mr. Iain MacleodThe following table gives the information desired.
NUMBER OF NOTIFIED UNFILLED VACANCIES PER 100 PERSONS REGISTERED AS WHOLLY UNEMPLOYED: OCTOBER, 1955, AND OCTOBER, 1956* Region October, 1955 October, 1956 London and South-Eastern 343 208 Eastern 312 237 Southern 280 177 South Western 175 115 Midland 495 151 North Midland 577 368 East and West Ridings 302 230 North Western 139 101 Northern 75 72 Scotland 45 42 Wales 74 55 *Persons registered as temporarily stopped are not available for submission for vacancies and they have therefore been excluded from the unemployment figures used for computing the ratios in the Table.