§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will show, for January, 1972, the number of unfilled male vacancies notified to his Department for each individual county in Scotland; and if he will show against those figures the number of unemployed males in each county.
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§ Mr. Dudley SmithFollowing is the information:
NUMBERS OF NOTIFIED VACANCIES REMAINING UNFILLED FOR MALES, AND MALES REGISTERED AS WHOLLY UNEMPLOYED AT JANUARY, 1972. IN COUNTIES OF SCOTLAND: Unfilled vacancies Wholly unemployed Aberdeenshire 95 4,409 Angus 130 7,194 Argyllshire 56 1,265 Ayrshire 127 6,848 Banffshire 9 691 Berwickshire 9 206 Buteshire 10 241 Caithness-shire and Sutherland 16 1,098 Clackmannanshire 25 894 Dumfriesshire 50 1,608 Dunbartonshire 61 6,466 East Lothian 50 498 Fifeshire and Kinross-shire 148 6,232 Inverness-shire 83 1,670 Kincardineshire 6 201 Kircudbrightshire 6 294 Lanarkshire 910 47,440 Midlothian 541 12,139 Morayshire 19 665 Nairnshire 4 142 Orkney 6 170 Peeblesshire 38 119 Perthshire 124 1,480 Renfrewshire 119 7,883 Ross and Cromarty 17 2,050 Roxburghshire 30 386 Selkirkshire 24 277 Shetland Islands 31 223 Stirlingshire 92 3,849 West Lothian 30 2,148 Wigtownshire 6 767 The vacancy statistics relate only to notified vacancies remaining unfilled and do not purport to measure the total unsatisfied demand for labour.