HC Deb 05 December 1972 vol 847 c357W
67. Mr. R. C. Mitchell

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many ship-repair workers were registered as unemployed at the last convenient date.

Mr. Dudley Smith

Information is available only for shipbuilding and ship repairing. At 13th November, the provisional number of people registered as unemployed in Great Britain who last worked in this industry was 9,298. The figure does not include workers who were temporarily stopped.