§ Mr. Leadbitterasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the total of wholly unemployed registered in the Hartlepool exchange area; how many have been out of work for more than six months; and how many vacancies were registered at the latest available date.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithIn the area covered by the Hartlepool and Hartlepool Headland employment exchanges, at 9th October the provisional number registered as unemployed, excluding temporarily stopped workers, was 3,412, of whom 1,577 had been registered for more than 26 weeks. The number of unfilled vacancies was 67. The vacancy figure relates only to notified vacancies remaining unfilled and does not purport to measure the total unsatisfied demand for labour.