§ 39. Mr. Geoffrey Lloydasked the Minister of Labour what steps he is taking to meet the need, emphasised by the first report of the West Midlands Planning Council, for more detailed figures of employment growth in the West Midlands.
§ Mr. GunterThere are considerable technical problems involved in compiling sufficiently reliable estimates of employment, analysed by industry, for areas smaller than regions. My Department, in conjunction with others concerned, is studying these problems. Estimates of total employment in sub-divisions of Regions are being compiled from the 1961 census of population data, and will be 91W compiled from the 1966 Census of Population data, when available, in order to provide a comparison with estimates based on Ministry of Labour data.