§ Mr. Oswaldasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will state the total number of plumbers formerly engaged on house building and industrial building, at present registered as unemployed within the Edinburgh and Lothians employment exchanges area.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithFollowing is the information:
Numbers of registered wholly unemployed men at 8th March, 1971 (provisional) who last worked in the construction industry as plumbers and pipe fitters: Edinburgh 68 Leith 29 Portobello 9 Dalkeith 2 Loanhead 3 Musselburgh 2 Tranent 2 Bathgate 4 Livingston 5 West Calder — Broxburn 4 B'ness — Linlithgow — Haddington 2 Total 130