§ Mr. Gourlayasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will state the number of redundancies notified to each office in the Kirkcaldy Employment Exchange area in each of the months January, February, March and April, 1971, and for the corresponding months in 1970.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithNot all redundancies are notified to my Department and it not the practice to keep records of every minor redundancy. However,190W the records held show that redundancies involving the following numbers of workpeople were notified to offices in the Kirkcaldy travel-to-work area in 1971 during the months concerned.
Glenrothes Leven Kirkcaldy Burntisland January … 234 — — — February … 209 — — — March … — 60 — — April … 70 — 50 — 513 60 50 — The only redundancy recorded during the corresponding period in 1970 involved 47 workpeople in the Leven area. Redundancies do not necessarily take effect in the months in which they are notified.
§ Mr. Gourlayasked the Secretary of of State for Employment if he will state the percentatge unemployment in the Kircaldy Exchange area for males, females and the total for each month from 1st January, 1970, to the latest available date.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithFollowing is the information:
PERCENTAGE RATES OF UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE KIRKCALDY, BURNTISLAND, GLENROTHES AND LEVEN AND METHIL TRAVEL-TO-WORK AREA Males Females Total 1970 January 7.4 2.7 5.6 February 7.3 2.7 5.5 March 6.8 2.8 5.2 April 6.7 2.4 5.0 May 6.5 2.4 4.9 June 6.4 2.4 4.9 July 7.3 2.7 5.5 August 7.6 3.3 5.9 September 7.3 2.8 5.6 October 6.6 2.6 5.0 November 6.9 2.5 5.2 December 7.2 2.8 5.5
1971 January 8.0 3.0 6.0 February 8.3 3.2 6.3 March 8.4 3.5 6.5 April 8.9 4.0 7.0 May (provisional) 8.6 3.5 6.6 Rates can be calculated for the whole of a travel-to-work area but not separately for its constituent parts.