§ Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will enumerate all the long-term, open-ended military commitments negotiated between
TOTAL NUMBERS REGISTERED AS UNEMPLOYED AT EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGES AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT OFFICES AT BATLEY AND MORLEY AND IN GREAT BRITAN, AND PERCENTAGE RATES OF UNEMPLOYMENT 14th November, 1966 8th November, 1965 Numbers unemployed Percentage rate Numbers unemployed Percentage rate Batley … … … 260 1.9 118 0.9 Morley … … … 181 1.2 135 0.9 Great Britain … … … 541,585* 2.3* 321,248 1.4 * Provisional.
§ Mr. Eldon Griffithsasked the Minister of Labour (1) if he will state the number of unemployed at the employment exchange in Bury St. Edmunds;
(2) if he will state the number of unemployed at the employment exchange in Haverhill;
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TOTAL NUMBERS REGISTERED AS UNEMPLOYED AT 14TH NOVEMBER, 1966 Men Boys Women Girls Total Temporarily stopped included in total Bury St. Edmunds … … 214 16 37 12 279 — Haverhill … … 182 5 36 7 230 73 Newmarket … … 82 — 14 1 97 2 Sudbury … … 125 3 22 — 150 44 1951 and 1964, indicating the annual cost of each; and what steps Her Majesty's Government intends to take to reduce the cost to public funds of these commitments.
§ Mr. HealeyFor information about our commitments and our proposals for reducing defence expenditure, I would refer my hon. Friend to the Statement on the Defence Estimates, 1966. As I have explained on a number of occasions, costs cannot be usefully estimated in terms of individual commitments.