§ Mr. Parryasked the Secetary of State for Employment if he will list in the 215W OFFICIAL REPORT the percentage of unemployed over the age of 45 years, registered at the various employment exchanges on Merseyside, to the most recent convenient date.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithFollowing are the figures for employment exchange areas within the Merseyside Development Area. They relate to 11th January, 1971, the latest date for which a details age analysis of the unemployed is available:
Wholly unemployed persons aged 45 years and over expressed as percentages of all registered wholly unemployed persons at 11th January, 1971 Per cent. Liverpool … … … 27.4 Bebington … … … 42.5 Birkenhead … … … 26.3 Bootle … … … 22.8 Crosby … … … 31.5 Ellesmere Port … … … 31.3 Garston … … … 31.0 Hoylake … … … 64.1 Kirkby … … … 15.0 Neston … … … 52.1 Old Swan … … … 27.2 Prescot … … … 23.7 Regent Road … … … 40.2 Wallasey … … … 33.0 Walton … … … 32.7 Widnes … … … 31.2 Runcorn … … … 36.9 St. Helens … … … 37.3