HC Deb 25 February 1969 vol 778 cc276-8W
Mrs. Ewing

asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity if she will publish a graph correlating the monthly levels of unemployment in Great Britain over the past six years with the Scottish percentages of these unemployment totals over the same period.

Mr. Fernyhough

As it is not customary to produce graphs in the OFFICIAL REPORT, the information is shown below in tablular form.

TOTAL NUMBERS REGISTERED AS UNEMPLOYED
Great Britain (000's) Scotland (000's) Scotland as percentage of Great Britain
1963
January 815.1 128.1 15.7
February 878.4 136.0 15.5
March 702.1 125.4 17.9
April 604.6 114.2 18.9
May 553.6 103.7 18.7
June 479.7 94.8 19.8
July 449.2 94.5 21.0
August 502.0 94.9 18.9
September 485.6 91.6 18.9
October 474.4 90.8 19.1
November 474.4 92.7 19.5
December 459.8 91.2 19.8
1964
January 500.7 101.4 20.3
February 464.1 97.0 20.9
March 425.4 92.1 21.7
April 411.6 86.3 21.0
May 369.1 79.1 21.4
June 321.9 70.6 21.9
July 317.5 74.4 23.4
August 368.5 74.9 20.3
September 341.7 71.7 21.0
October 347.8 71.2 20.5
November 350.0 71.5 20.4
December 348.8 73.2 21.0
1965
January 376.4 79.7 21.2
February 367.9 77.9 21.2
March 372.1 73.8 19.8
April 341.2 67.7 19.8
May 306.9 62.2 20.3
June 276.1 56.1 20.3
July 280.6 59.8 21.3
August 339.1 63.0 18.6
September 315.3 58.8 18.6
October 317.0 59.6 18.8
November 321.2 61.5 19.1
December 332.0 66.5 20.0
1966
January 349.7 70.6 20.2
February 339.4 64.7 19.1
March 314.2 60.8 19.4
April 307.5 58.5 19.0
May 280.3 55.0 19.6
June 261.1 52.4 20.1
July 264.2 54.9 20.8
August 317.0 58.9 18.6
September 340.2 60.6 17.8
October 436.2 67.3 15.4
November 542.6 78.1 14.4
December 564.2 80.2 14.2
1967
January 600.2 88.9 14.8
February 602.8 90.1 14.9
March 569.0 87.7 15.4
April 567.4 85.7 15.1
May 541.4 82.9 15.3
June 499.8 77.0 15.4
July 497.1 81.0 16.3

Great Britain (000's) Scotland (000's) Scotland as percentage of Great Britain
August 555.6 84.1 15.1
September 555.4 82.1 14.8
October 560.7 83.8 14.9
November 581.6 85.9 14.8
December 582.7 86.2 14.8
1968
January 630.9 95.3 15.1
February 619.2 90.9 14.7
March 589.9 87.0 14.7
April 578.4 85.1 14.7
May 548.9 79.8 14.5
June 516.7 78.4 15.2
July 514.6 79.8 15.5
August 561.4 81.7 14.6
September 547.4 78.6 14.4
October 549.3 79.2 14.4
November 560.9 79.4 14.2
December 551.7 79.2 14.4
1969
January 594.5 89.6 15.1
February (provisional) 591.2 85.7 14.5