§ Mr. Arnold Shawasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people included in the May, August and November 1975 counts of coloured unemployed workers were registered for employment at careers offices and how many at employment exchanges; and
UNEMPLOYED REGISTRANTS WHO WERE BORN, OR WHOSE PARENT(S) WERE BORN, IN CERTAIN COUNTRIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH AND PAKISTAN Registered at the offices of Careers Service Registered at the offices of Employment Service Agency Males Females Total Males Females Total May 1975 … 988 463 1,451 20,683 5,439 26,122 August 1975 … 4,172 2,391 6,563 28,089 7,535 35,624 Young people of immigrant descent form a relatively small proportion of the total number of unemployed young people. In August 1975 they represented 3.5 per cent. of a total of 190,086 registered as unemployed at that time.