§ 37. Mr. Gwynoro Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many new jobs have been created in Wales to date in 1973; and how many people have been made redundant.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithI regret that the figure for jobs created is not available. Redundancies involving 555 workpeople have been recorded as due to occur in Wales in the period ended 28th February 1973.
§ Mr. Cledwyn Hughesasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the percentage figures of male unemployment in each of the Welsh counties at the latest convenient date.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithThe following table shows provisional percentage rates of unemployment for 12th March 1973.
Anglesey 9.0 Brecknockshire 4.4 Caernarvonshire 7.2 Cardiganshire 5.4 Carmarthenshire 2.9 Denbighshire 4.6 Flintshire 4.2 Glamorganshire 4.2 Merionethshire 7.6 Monmouthshire 4.0 Montgomeryshire 3.0 Pembrokeshire 4.8 Radnorshire 3.6
§ Mr. Alan Williamsasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many manufacturing redundancies, male and female, respectively, have been declared in Wales in each year since 1960.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithThe information is not available in the form requested, but the total numbers of redundancies recorded by my Department as notified272W in manufacturing industry in Wales in the years 1961 to 1972 are as follows:
Year Number 1961 8,300 1962 10,000 1963 4,600 1964 6,700 1965 7,800 1966 9,500 1967 7,500 1968 4,000 1969 4,400 1970 8,300 1971 18,300 1972 7,100
§ Mr. Alan Williamsasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many jobs are in prospect in Wales at the latest available date; and how this figure compares with the number at the same date in each year since 1960.
§ Mr. Anthony GrantI have been asked to reply.
Estimates are available only to mid-1972, after which industrial development certificates which provided for basis for them were no longer required in development and special development areas. Figures for Wales for the years 1960 to 1972 are given below.
'000s 1960 31 1961 28 1962 19 1963 14 1964 11 1965 14 1966 20 1967 22 1968 20 1969 28 1970 31 1971 25 1972 16 N.B. These figures do not include jobs in the service sector nor do they take account of expansion by existing industrial undertakings.
§ Mr. Alan Williamsasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many extra male jobs would exist in Wales, and how many extra female jobs, if male and female activity rates in Wales were at the level of the region with the highest male and the highest female activity rates, respectively.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithIf the overall male and female activity rates in Wales were at the same level as those in the regions with the highest activity rates as shown by provisional results from the 1971 273W Census of Population, the labour force in Wales would have included about 60,000 more males and about 100,000 more females. Part of the explanation for the lower activity rates in Wales is the higher than average percentages of the population above the normal working ages.
§ Mr. Elystan Morganasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish the total of males employed in Wales in each year from 1962 to 1972, inclusive.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithThe following table shows estimates of the number of male employees in employment in Wales for June of each year:
1962 668,000 1963 669,000 1964(a) 672,000 1964(b) 673,000 1965 670,000 1966 664,000 1967 640,000 1968 629,000 1969(a) 618,000 1969(b) 620,000 1970 608,000 1971 603,000 1972 592,000 All the estimates are based on counts of national insurance cards. Those from June 1964(b) are on a revised basis of calculation and are not strictly comparable with those for June 1964(a) and earlier dates. The estimates from June 1969(b) include improved information about the location of employees in the distributive trades.