§ Mr. Andrew F. Bennettasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the average weekly earnings of full-time male employees and the number of persons registered as unemployed in the area covered by each metropolitan district council and non-metropolitan county council in England and Wales, for 500W the most recent month figures are available.
§ Mr. BoothEstimates of average gross weekly earnings in April 1974 of full-time men aged 21 and over employed in each county of England and Wales and each borough of Greater London in which sample sizes were large enough to give reliable results were published in my Department'sGazette for January 1975, table C pages 31 and 32. Differences in average earnings between counties include the effect of different industrial and occupational structures. They do not therefore give a precise indication of differences in earnings for comparable work. Statistics of the numbers unemployed are compiled for employment office areas. The following table shows the figures for June 1975 added together to correspond as closely as possible with the county boundaries. I regret that statistics for metropolitan districts are not available.
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TOTAL NUMBER UNEMPLOYED AT JUNE 1975 METROPOLITAN COUNTIES, INCLUDING GREATER LONDON West Midlands 55,301 South Yorkshire 19,472 West Yorkshire 28,529 Greater Manchester 43,597 Merseyside 57,638 Tyne and Wear 34,178 Greater London 87,126 NON-METROPOLITAN COUNTIES Bedfordshire 5,603 Berkshire 5,883 Buckinghamshire 3,035 East Sussex 7,318 Essex 16,594 Hampshire 17,119 Hertfordshire 6,658 Isle of Wight 1,489 Kent 16,389 Oxfordshire 5,223 Surrey 5,319 West Sussex 4,769 Cambridgeshire 5,209 Norfolk 9,417 Suffolk 6,742 Avon 14,624 Cornwall 8,013 Devon 16,038 Dorset 8,362 Gloucestershire 6,221 Somerset 4,227 Wiltshire 6,676 Hereford and Worcester 6,606 Salop 5,154 Staffordshire 10,906 Warwickshire 4,732 Derbyshire 10,978 Leicestershire 11,437
Lincolnshire 7,255 Northamptonshire 5,074 Nottinghamshire 14,204 Humberside 16,926 North Yorkshire 6,041 Cheshire 13,866 Lancashire 21,097 Cleveland 13,286 Cumbria 7,490 Durham 12,306 Northumberland 4,788 Clwyd 7,785 Dyfed 5,479 Gwent 8,036 Gwynedd 4,730 Mid Glamorgan 9,928 Powys 1,298 South Glamorgan 6,947 West Glamorgan 6,614