§ Mr. Georgeasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the numbers of persons registered as disabled who were unemployed for each year since 1948; and if he will express these totals as a percentage of (a) the total numbers employed and (b) the number of registered disabled.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerThe following table provides the information required by the first and third parts of the question for April for each of the years concerned. It is not possible to express the numbers unemployed as a percetnage of those in employment because information about the numbers of registered disabled people in employment is not available.
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Year Numbers of unemployed registered disabled people Unemployed registered disabled people as a percentage of all registered people 1948 … … … 78,067 8.9 1949 … … … 70,778 7.7 1950 … … … 65,128 6.9 1951 … … … 52,774 5.8 1952 … … … 54,719 6.2 1953 … … … 58,475 6.8 1954 … … … 51,013 6.1 1955 … … … 41,249 5.0 1956 … … … 40,797 5.1 1957 … … … 48,955 6.4 1958 … … … 52,061 7.0 1959 … … … 59,671 8.3 1960 … … … 54,835 7.9 1961 … … … 47,860 7.2 1962 … … … 52,323 8.0 1963 … … … 62,415 9.6 1964 … … … 56,104 8.6 1965 … … … 48,318 7.4 1966 … … … 45,192 6.9 1967 … … … 58,048 8.9 1968 … … … 65,350 10.0 1969 … … … 68,586 10.6 1970 … … … 72,116 11.4 1971 … … … 80,172 12.6 1972 … … … 91,603 14.9 1973 … … … 77,360 13.0 1974 … … … 63,375 11.0
§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the sheltered employment facilities for severely disabled people available in the Kirkby and Ormskirk areas, respectively; and if he will specify how these have been recently expanded.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerSheltered employment facilities which serve the Kirkby and Ormskirk areas are as follows:
Numbers of severely disabled people employed Remploy Factory, Aintree 143 Remploy Factory, Wigan 102 Remploy Factory, St. Helens 93 Lord Roberts Workshop, Liverpool 43 Liverpool Parks and Gardens Scheme 4 Liverpool Workshop for the Blind 58 Wigan, Leigh and District Society Workshop for the Blind 30 St. Helens Corporation Workshop for the Blind 10 Sir Robert Jones Workshop, Liverpool 117 600 Sir Robert Jones Workshop opened an extension early this year which will increase its capacity from 120 to 150 places when fully operative.
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Mr. R. C. Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many registered disabled people were unemployed in the Southampton area at the latest available date; and how this compares with the same time in each year from 1970.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerThe number of registered disabled people unemployed in the Southampton area in September, the latest date for which figures are available, was 323. Previous figures for the same month were:
1970 … … … 376 1971 … … … 442 1972 … … … 408 1973 … … … 392