HC Deb 22 January 1973 vol 849 c58W
Mr. Bryant Godman Irvine

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many males and females were registered as unemployed at the Bexhill, Hailsham and Rye employment exchanges on 16th January 1973; and how many of these were over 55 years of age, under 18 years of age and school leavers, respectively.

Mr. Dudley Smith

The following table shows the unemployed by age groups on 8th January 1973. The figures are provisional.

age productivity has risen from December 1970 to the latest convenient date.

Mr. Dudley Smith

Output per person employed is provisionally estimated to have increased by about 11 per cent. in the index of production industries between the last quarter of 1970 and the third quarter of 1972. A corresponding estimate for the whole economy is not yet available.