§ Mr. Leadbitterasked the Secretary of State for Employment what, at the latest available date, was the number of notified vacancies for men and boys in the Hartlepool exchange area and the number of men and boys wholly unemployed; and, expressed as a ratio of unemployment to vacancies, how this 245W compares with the exchange areas in the Northern Region.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithBased on the provisional figures for March 1973, there were 135 unfilled vacancies for men and boys in the area covered by the Hartle-pool and Hartlepool Headland employment exchanges and 2,468 men and boys unemployed. The following table shows the number of males unemployed per male vacancy in employment exchange and travel-to-work areas in the North region:
March 1973 (Provisional) Hartlepool and Hartlepool Headland* 18.3 Alnwick 5.3 Amble 24.8 Ashington 13.8 Barnard Castle 11-6 Bedlington 4.3 Berwick-on-Tweed 2.6 Blyth 12.9 Carlisle* 3.2 Chester-le-Street* 10.1 Consett* 12.1 Darlington* 2.1 Durham 2.9 Haltwhistle 3.7 Hexham 4.0 Kendal 0.8 Keswick 2.9 Malton 4.6 Millom 7.5 Morpeth 7.7 Northallerton 1.0 Penrith 1.4 Peterlee* 20.1 Pickering 1.7 Richmond 10 Scarborough 2.8 Seaton Delaval 5.1 South West Durham* 5.7 Tees-side* 9.2 Thirsk 2.2 Tyneside* 7.7 Wearside* 10.5 Whitby 20.9 Whitehaven* 6.1 Workington* 6.0 *Travel-to-work area. The vacancy statistics relate only to notified vacancies remaining unfilled and do not purport to measure the total unsatisfied demand for labour.