§ Mr. Knoxasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the total number of vacancies for employment as notified to him from the employment exchanges in the Leek parliamentary constituency; and what was the number of vacancies in the comparable period in 1970.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithThere were 708 unfilled vacancies in the area covered by the Leek, Cheadle, Biddulph and Kids-grove employment exchanges in June 1973 and 555 in June 1970. The statistics relate only to notified vacancies remaining unfilled and do not measure the total unsatisfied demand for labour. The figure for June 1973 is provisional.