Paper and Board Making Industry

HC Deb 17 May 1971 vol 817 c223W

Mr. Trew

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many redundancies there were in the United Kingdom paper and board making industry in 1970 and in the first quarter of 1971.

Mr. Dudley Smith

Figures for the United Kingdom are not available. However redundancies involving 6.000 workers in Great Britain were recorded by my Department in 1970, and 3,150 in the first quarter of 1971. These figures are not comprehensive, as my Department does not hold information about every redundancy which occurs.

NUMBERS REGISTERED AS UNEMPLOYED AND PERCENTAGE RATES OF UNEMPLOYMENT, IN EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE AREAS IN THE COUNTY OF FIFE.
						Males	Females	Total	Percentage rate
Anstruther	…	…	…	…	…	116	32	148	6.6
Cupar	…	…	…	…	…	165	36	201	2.4
Dunfermline	…	…	…	…	…	810	283	1,093	5.5*
Cowdenbeath	…	…	…	…	…	984	334	1,318
Inverkeithing	…	…	…	…	…	93	17	110
Kirkcaldy	…	…	…	…	…	1,028	205	1,233	7.0*
Burntisland	…	…	…	…	…	118	29	147
Glenrothes	…	…	…	…	…	595	273	868
Leven and Methil	…	…	…	…	…	1,276	358	1,634
St. Andrews	…	…	…	…	…	114	26	140	2.4
Rates can be calculated for the whole of the Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy travel-to-work areas but not separately for their constituent parts.