§ Mr. Alexander Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of redundancies affecting males and females, respectively, notified to his Department in the Hamilton constituency area of Lanarkshire in each of the last 20 months.
§ Mr. BryanNot all redundancies are notified to my Department, and it is not the practice to keep records of every minor redundancy. However, redundancies in the Hamilton constituency of Lanarkshire involving the following numbers of workpeople were notified to my Department between 1st July, 1970, and 29th February, 1972:
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NUMBERS OF PEOPLE REGISTERED AS WHOLLY UNEMPLOYED AT FEBRUARY, 1972 Numbers wholly unemployed Percentage of total* Employment Exchange Areas Men aged 18 and over Boys under 18 Women aged 18 and over Girls under 18 Total all ages Men aged 18 and over Boys under 18 Women aged 18 and over Girls under 18 Askern 230 — 18 — 248 92.7 — 7.3 — Attercliffe 1,301 — 76 — 1,377 94.5 — 5.5 — Barnoldswick 138 3 53 6 200 69.0 1.5 26.5 3.0 Barnsley 2,884 114 229 62 3,289 87.7 3.5 7.0 1.9 Barton-on-Humber 178 8 23 11 220 80.9 3.6 10.5 5.0 Batley 669 31 104 21 825 81.1 3.8 12.6 2.5 Beverley 236 4 61 10 311 75.9 1.3 19.6 3.2 Bradford 5,686 210 535 103 6,534 87.0 3.2 8.2 1.6 Bridlington 700 20 100 16 836 83.7 2.4 12.0 1.9 Brighouse 303 5 35 6 349 86.8 1.4 10.0 1.7 Castleford 1,060 52 104 28 1,244 85.2 4.2 8.4 2.3 Chapeltown 461 6 90 6 563 81.9 1.1 16.0 1.1 Dewsbury 1,085 16 168 11 1,280 84.8 1.3 13.1 0.9 Dinnington 510 23 87 12 632 80.7 3.6 13.8 1.9 Doncaster 3,959 267 751 206 5,183 76.4 5.2 14.5 4.0 Driffield 118 6 19 6 149 79.2 4.0 12.8 4.0 Filey 177 3 31 7 218 81.2 1.4 14.2 3.2 Gainsborough 462 41 115 21 639 72.3 6.4 18.0 3.3 Goldthorpe 631 52 116 40 839 75.2 6.2 13.8 4.8 Goole 615 26 86 8 735 83.7 3.5 11.7 1.1 Grimsby 3,251 158 388 111 3,908 83.2 4.0 9.9 2.8 Halifax 1,413 51 118 36 1,618 87.3 3.2 7.3 2.2 Harrogate 686 22 147 8 863 79.5 2.5 17.0 0.9 Hebden Bridge 102 — 15 — 117 87.2 — 12.8 — Hemsworth 532 89 59 58 738 72.1 12.1 8.0 7.9 Hessle 462 10 74 8 554 83.4 1.8 13.4 1.4
Male Female 1970: July … … Nil Nil August … … 9 29 September … … Nil Nil October … … 20 Nil November … … 22 Nil December … … Nil Nil 1971: January … … Nil Nil February … … Nil Nil March … … 300 46 April … … 142 27 May … … 2 9 June … … Nil Nil July … … 26 3 August … … Nil Nil September … … Nil Nil October … … Nil Nil November … … 53 15 December … … Nil Nil 1972: January … … Nil Nil February … … Nil Nil