HC Deb 18 February 1971 vol 811 c538W
84. Mr. James Hamilton

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many persons registering as steel erectors and improvers are unemployed in Scotland; and how the figures compare with 1968, 1969, 1970 at the same time.

Mr. Dudley Smith

At 11th January, 1971, there were in Scotland 509 wholly unemployed men who were registered for employment as constructional fitters and erectors. The corresponding figures for January, 1970, January, 1969, and January, 1968, were 302, 245 and 286.