Greenock and Port Glasgow

HC Deb 04 March 1959 vol 601 c47W

72. Dr. Dickson Mabon

asked the Minister of Labour the percentage rate of unemployment for the Greenock and Port Glasgow area at the most convenient date in February.

Mr. Iain Macleod

Nine per cent. at 9th February, 1959.

73. Dr. Dickson Mabon

asked the Minister of Labour for the most convenient date in February the number of wholly unemployed persons on the registers of the Greenock Employment Exchange, in respect of duration of employment.

Mr. Iain Macleod

At 9th February, 1959, the total number of wholly unemployed persons on the registers of the Greenock Employment Exchange was 2,916, of whom 455 had been on the registers for two weeks or less, 635 for two to eight weeks and 1,826 for more than eight weeks.