§ Mr. Roseasked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the current figures for unemployment in the greater Manchester area; and what redundancies have been notified for the rest of 1972.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithIn the Manchester travel-to-work area at 10th July the provisional number of people registered as unemployed was 30,116, of whom 544 were temporarily stopped, and the rate of unemployment was 4.4 per cent. Redundancies at present recorded by my Department as due to occur in the area during the period 1st July to 31st December, 1972, involve 1,760 workpeople.