96. Mr. Stone houseasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the current numbers for wholly unemployed and for short-time working in Walsall and the measures he proposes to take to reduce these figures.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithAt 12th June, 3,171 people were registered as wholly unemployed and 451 as temporarily stopped in the Walsall employment exchange area. The best employment prospects for Walsall lie in the sustained expansion of the national economy which the Budget and other measures we have introduced are designed to achieve.