Building Workers, Newcastle-under-Lyme

HC Deb 27 November 1970 vol 807 c231W

Mr. Golding

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the current level of unemployment among building workers at Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Mr. Dudley Smith

At 9th November, 1970, the provisional percentage rate of unemployment for the construction industry in the Stoke-on-Trent travel-to-work area, which includes Newcastle-under-Lyme, was 6.7. Rates cannot be calculated for Newcastle-under-Lyme alone.