§ Mr. Wakehamasked the Secretary of State for Employment what are his current estimates of the numbers employed in the United Kingdom in the building of small boats; and how this has changed since April 1975.
206Woffices and careers offices and are not a measure of total vacancies. Because of possible duplication, the vacancy figures for the two groups of offices should not be added together. The most recent statistics of vacancies and the unemployed are for November 1975. Owing to industrial action at local offices of the Employment Service Agency the corresponding figures for November 1974 are not available. Following is the information available:
§ Mr. John FraserI regret that the information is not available. Statistics are compiled for the shipbuilding and ship repairing industry as a whole but there are no separate figures for the building of small boats.