§ Mr. Dempseyasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity if she will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT figures showing the total number of males and females over, and under,
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TOTAL NUMBERS REGISTERED AS UNEMPLOYED AND PERCENTAGE RATES OF UNEMPLOYMENT AT 14TH OCTOBER, 1968 IN EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE AREAS IN LANARKSHIRE (PROVISIONAL FIGURES) Men Boys Women Girls Total Percentage rate* Airdrie 645 64 246 20 975 4.8 Bellshill 329 16 150 11 506 Blantyre 315 11 125 10 461 Cambuslang 271 19 50 9 349 Carluke 81 2 24 2 109 Coatbridge 917 43 476 19 1,455 East Kilbride 160 10 84 7 261 Hamilton 870 33 365 21 1,289 Larkhall 259 13 129 3 404 Motherwell 518 29 276 19 842 Uddingston 267 9 129 2 407 Wishaw 675 23 391 20 1,109 Lanark 312 11 126 11 460 5.6 Lesmahagow 376 4 44 4 428 15.6 Shotts 197 3 165 7 372 5.7 * Percentage rates of unemployment are calculated by expressing the total numbers registered as unemployed as percentages of the estimated numbers of employees, employed and unemployed. There are no estinates of the insurable population. Percentage rates can be calculated for the whole of the North Lanarkshire travel-to-work area, but not separately for its constituent parts. leavers in the county of Midlothian known to the Youth Employment Service was as follows:
1960 1,430 1961 1,401 1962 1,607 1963 1,442 1964 1,448 1965 1,262 1966 1,308 1967 1,044 1968 1,142 It is not known how many found employment immediately but the following table shows the percentage registered for work at youth employment offices at the time of the first count following the statutory leaving date and two months later. The figures for the later dates are the best indication that can be given of the rate of unemployment.
18 years of age registering at each employment exchange in Lanarkshire at the most recent convenient date; and what percentage these figures represent of the insurable population.
§ Mr. Eadieasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what were the unemployment figures for Scotland in the years 1952 to 1968, respectively, for July, August and September;
TOTAL NUMBERS REGISTERED AS UNEMPLOYED IN SCOTLAND Men Boys Women Girls Total 14th July, 1952 35,981 2,305 25,581 2,842 66,709 11th August, 1952 36,053 2,122 24,713 2,777 65,665 15th September, 1952 37,243 1,585 25,035 2,509 66,372 13th July, 1953 34,039 2,117 16,869 1,742 54,767 10th August, 1953 34,325 2,142 17,651 1,896 56,014 14th September, 1953 34,705 1,592 18,692 1,613 56,602 12th July, 1954 30,095 2,100 16,014 1,561 49,770 9th August, 1954 31,478 2,187 16,356 1,625 51,646 13th September, 1954 31,799 1,632 16,676 1,328 51,435 11th July, 1955 26,596 2,141 13,953 1,565 44,255 15th August, 1955 25,663 2,019 14,187 1,387 43,256 12th September, 1955 27,242 1,477 14,555 1,102 44,376 16th July, 1956 27,468 1,828 14,290 1,357 44,943 13th August, 1956 29,382 1,906 15,286 1,360 47,934 17th September, 1956 33,499 1,329 16,071 1,084 51,983 15th July, 1957 30,603 1,998 14,020 1,265 47,886 12th August, 1957 31,348 2,056 14,887 1,352 49,643 16th September, 1957 32,407 1,395 15,535 1,067 50,404 14th July, 1958 47,816 3,621 21,517 2,420 75,374 11th August, 1958 51,686 4,030 21,287 2,433 79,436 15th September, 1958 52,288 3,447 22,008 2,061 79,804 13th July, 1959 56,899 5,176 20,894 2,597 85,566 17th August, 1959 55,560 5,501 20,551 2,448 84,060 14th September, 1959 56,586 4,255 20,756 1,788 83,385 11th July, 1960 46,230 3,479 17,666 1,877 69,252 15th August, 1960 45,030 3,469 16,987 1,641 67,127 12th September, 1960 44,321 2,595 16,990 1,319 65,225 10th July, 1961 39,164 3,259 15,364 1,985 59,772 14th August, 1961 41,788 3,020 16,007 1,727 62,542 11th September, 1961 42,212 2,210 16,232 1,384 62,038 16th July, 1962 49,383 4,727 18,044 3,127 75,281 13th August, 1962 54,196 5,399 18,610 3,023 81,228 10th September, 1962 56,130 4,589 19,424 2,700 82,843 15th July, 1963 62,249 6,411 22,077 3,779 94,516 12th August, 1963 61,892 7,001 22,199 3,851 94,943 9th September, 1963 60,369 5,714 22,329 3,174 91,586 13th July, 1964 48,065 5,166 18,356 2,825 74,412 10th August, 1964 48,381 5,309 18,534 2,720 74,944 14th September, 1964 47,544 3,636 18,308 2,199 71,687 12th July, 1965 40,074 3,608 14,141 2,064 59,887 9th August, 1965 42,265 3,804 14,813 2,085 62,967 13th September, 1965 39,860 2,451 14,917 1,530 58,758 11th July, 1966 37,746 3,236 12,201 1,754 54,937 8th August, 1966 40,315 3,651 12,941 1,961 58,868 12th September, 1966 43,114 2,661 13,339 1,532 60,646 10th July, 1967 55,920 4,577 17,799 2,729 81,025 14th August, 1967 58,064 4,485 18,911 2,688 84,148 11th September, 1967 58,016 3,341 18,615 2,142 82,114 8th July, 1968 58,646 4,240 14,832 2,105 79,823 12th August, 1968 59,927 3,900 15,688 2,140 81,655 9th September, 1968 59,577 2,787 14,661 1,608 78,633