§ Mr. Kinnockasked the Secretary of State for Employment if in future he will publish simultaneously with unemployment figures a regional economic employment figure which would take account of the unemployment rate, the labour migration rate and the activity rate for all regions of Great Britain, expressed as a ratio of the national average.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithNo. It is the practice of my Department to publish employment and unemployment statistics as soon as they become available and simultaneous publication of these together with other information would lead to considerable delay.