HC Deb 06 December 1965 vol 722 c9W
Mr. Wood

asked the Minister of Labour how many of the 153,377 people, unemployed for more than eight weeks at 8th November, have been unemployed for more than 26 weeks; and how many for more than a year.

Mr. Thornton

Analyses of persons registered as wholly-unemployed for more than eight weeks are compiled only for the months of January, April, July and October. Of the 146,876 persons who had been registered as wholly-unemployed for more than eight weeks at 11th October, 1965, in Great Britain, 82,227 had been unemployed for more than 26 weeks and 51,068 for more than 52 weeks.