HC Deb 24 February 1972 vol 831 cc342-4W
57. Mr. Roy Hughes

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many young persons were unemployed in Monmouthshire, and how many vacancies existed, at the latest available date.

Mr. Dudley Smith

Provisional figures for February, 1972, show that there were 922 unemployed young people and 126 unfilled vacancies in the county of Monmouthshire. The vacancy statistics relate only to notified vacancies remaining unfilled and do not purport to measure the total demand.

58. Mr. Roy Hughes

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many males are unemployed in the county of Monmouthshire; and how many male vacancies existed at the latest available date.

Mr. Dudley Smith

At 14th February, the provisional number of males registered as wholly unemployed in the county of Monmouthshire was 8,351. In addition, 1,023 temporarily stopped male workers were registered as unemployed. At 9th

NUMBERS OF NOTIFIED VACANCIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS REMAINING UNFILLED, AND NUMBERS OF BOYS AND GIRLS REGISTERED AS WHOLLY UNEMPLOYED, IN COUNTIES OF SCOTLAND AT JANUARY, 1972
Unfilled vacancies Wholly unemployed
Boys Girls Boys Girls
Aberdeenshire 26 53 190 100
Angus 36 32 435 402
Argyllshire 9 11 69 79
Ayrshire 55 94 446 333
Banffshire 6 6 43 30
Berwickshire 3 7 7
Buteshire 3 10 13
Caithness and Sutherland 4 15 66 40
Clackmannanshire 4 7 39 44
Dunbartonshire 4 7 398 230
Dumfriesshire 19 19 95 58
East Lothian 5 8 35 14
Fifeshire and Kinross-shire 24 36 293 226
Inverness-shire 16 23 111 116
Kincardineshire 4 2 14 18
Kirkcudbrightshire 3 5 21 5
Lanarkshire 118 382 3,561 2,219
Midlothian 119 212 543 247
Morayshire 4 5 25 32
Nairnshire 3 7 3
Orkney 2 4 9 4
Peeblesshire 5 6 7
Perthshire 51 65 53 42
Renfrewshire 24 45 364 279
Ross and Cromarty 5 4 98 117
Roxburghshire 19 65 21 18
Selkirkshire 8 11 12 6
Shetland Islands 8 14 8
Stirlingshire 26 58 179 164
West Lothian 4 4 168 183
Wigtownshire 2 2 39 43
The vacancy statistics relate only to notified vacancies remaining unfilled and do not purport to measure the total unsatisfied demand for labour.

February, 217 notified vacancies for males remained unfilled.