HC Deb 01 July 1971 vol 820 cc156-8W
27. Mr. McElhone

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will pay an official visit to Glasgow.

Mr. R. Carr

I have no plan to do so at present, but I hope an opportunity will arise in the future.

28. Mr. Millan

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the total number of male unemployed in Glasgow at the latest available date; and how the figures compare with the figures a year earlier.

Mr. Dudley Smith

The numbers of males registered as unemployed in the Glasgow travel-to-work area were 32,013 at June, 1971, and 22,920 at June, 1970. The figure for June, 1971, is provisional.

30. Mr. Hugh D. Brown

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list all the redundancies notified to his Department affecting firms in Glasgow with the numbers involved, since 18th June, 1970.

Mr. Dudley Smith

Information supplied to my Department by individual employers is usually provided for official use only and I should not feel justified in publishing it. Redundancies recorded in Glasgow since 18th June, 1970, have involved a total of 11,200 employees.

31. Mr. Lawson

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what he is doing to help those requiring employment opportunties in Glasgow and the West of Scotland; and what success he is having.

Mr. Dudley Smith

My Department's employment officers in these areas are making every effort to assist by providing information and advice about job and training opportunities. In many cases where major redundancies have taken place special job teams have visited factories for this purpose before employment has terminated. In the last year we have placed 73,000 people in these areas.

35. Mr. Carmichael

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many vacancies existed for male employees in Glasgow at the latest available date, and what percentage this represented of the male unemployed in Glasgow at the same date.

Mr. Dudley Smith

At 9th June 1,669 vacancies for males remained unfilled in the Glasgow travel-to-work area and there were 5.2 vacancies per hundred males registered as wholly unemployed. The statistics, which are provisional, relate only to vacancies which were notified to my Department and do not purport to measure the total unsatisfied demand for labour.