HC Deb 27 January 1969 vol 776 cc237-8W
Mr. Dempsey

asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what was the percentage of the insurable population unemployed at the most recent convenient date in each of the regions of the United Kingdom.

Mr. Fernyhough

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. The rates for 13th January, 1969 (provisional), were;

South East … 1.7
East Anglia … 2.2
South Western … 2.8
West Midlands … 1.9
East Midlands … 2.1
Yorkshire and Humberside … 2.8
North Western … 2.5
Northern … 5.2
Wales … 4.2
Scotland … 4.1
Northern Ireland … 8.0