§ Mr. Adleyasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list in the OFFICIAL REPORT those places where seasonal factors regularly cause unemployment fluctuations between summer and winter to the point where January unemployment is regularly more than 20 per cent. higher than the figure for the previous June.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithEstimates of the normal seasonal influences upon unemployment are calculated periodically for Great Britain and for the standard regions in order to obtain seasonally adjusted figures. At the present trend levels, the unemployment figures for January are expected to exceed those for June by more than 20 per cent. in the South-West, East Anglia, and South-East
248WWales, but it would be premature at this stage to speculate on the level of consequential redundancies.
§ Mr. Alec Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many men and women, respectively, have been unemployed in Wales for periods of (a) over 26 weeks and up to 52 weeks, and (b) over 52 weeks in March of each of the last three years.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithThe information is available only for January, April, July and October each year and the following table is based on the January figures.
regions and in Wales. Similar estimates for smaller sub-regional areas cannot be provided.