§ Mr. Leadbitterasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many redundancies which have been announced by the British Steel Corporation have been registered by the Hartlepool Employment Exchanges as applications for unemployment benefit; what this figure represents as a percentage of the total redundancies; and how many registering have been out of work for more than eight weeks.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithI regret that information is not available in the form required. It may help the hon. Member, however, to know that according to my Department's records, 887 workpeople have been made redundant by the British Steel Corporation in The Hartlepools area in the first 10 months of 1971 and that there were 444 people registered as unemployed in that area at 11th October who were last employed in the steel industry.
§ Mr. Leadbitterasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people are registered as wholly out of work in the Hartlepool Employment Exchanges at the latest available date; and how this figure compares with the figures for 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1970 in the same period.
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§ Mr. Dudley SmithFollowing is the information:
Numbers registered as wholly unemployed in the area covered by the Hartlepool and Hartlepool Headland Employment Exchanges October, 1971 3,530 October, 1970 2,282 October, 1969 2,239 October, 1968 2,614 October, 1967 2,097 October, 1966 1,564