§ Mr. George Jegerasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity whether she will publish the number of wholly unemployed registered at the employment exchange at Thorne, expressed as an actual figure, as a percentage of the local working population, and showing duration of unemployment.
§ Mr. DellAt 13th October, 1969 1,051 persons (882 males and 169 females) were registered as wholly unemployed in the area covered by the Thorne Employment Exchange. Percentage rates of unemployment cannot be calculated for Thorne alone but in the Doncaster and Thorne travel-to-work area the numbers registered as wholly unemployed formed 4.8 per cent. of the estimated number of all employees, employed and unemployed.
The following analysis by duration relates to the registered wholly unemployed in the area covered by the Thorne Employment Exchange together with a few young persons in the adjacent Goole area who are covered by the Thorne Youth Employment Service Careers Office.
DURATION ANALYSIS OF THE NUMBERS REGISTERED AS WHOLLY UNEMPLOYED AT THE THORNE EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE AND THE THORNE YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICE CAREERS OFFICE. Males Females Total One week or less 44 13 57 Over 1 and up to 2 weeks 73 7 80 1 and up to 3 weeks 106 4 110 1 and up to 4 weeks 37 14 51 1 and up to 5 weeks 41 8 49 1 and up to 6 weeks 37 9 46 1 and up to 7 weeks 10 6 16 1 and up to 8 weeks 22 5 27 1 and up to 9 weeks 19 6 25 1 and up to 13 weeks 110 31 141 1 and up to 26 weeks 102 12 128 1 and up to 39 weeks 48 7 60 1 and up to 52 weeks 35 41 42 Over 52 weeks 227 26 268