§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Employment what 643W is the estimated number of unemployed skilled and unskilled workers in the building and construction trade in (1) Cheshire, (2) the area covered by the Macclesfield constituency, (3) Macclesfield, and (4) Congleton, respectively, at the latest convenient date.
Employment Office areas in Cheshire Macclesfield and Congleton Employment Office areas Macclesfield Employment Office area Congleton Employment Office area Site and other managers, agents and clerks of works, general foremen (building and civil engineering) … 42 2 2 — Carpenters and joiners (construction sites and maintenance) … … 102 3 3 — Maintenance fitters (non-electrical) plant and industrial machinery … 37 — — — Electricians (installation and maintenance) premises and ships … … 38 3 — 3 Cable jointers and linesmen … … — — — — Plumbers, pipe fitters … … … 81 2 — 2 Heating and ventilating engineering fitters … … … … … 10 3 3 — Gas fitters … … … … — — — — Steel erectors … … … … 29 2 2 — Scaffolders, stagers … … … 25 2 1 1 Steel benders, bar benders and fixers … 18 — — — Painters and decorators … … 106 8 8 — Bricklayers … … … … 110 12 8 4 Fixer/walling masons … … … — — — — Plasterers … … … … 43 3 2 1 Floor and wall tilers, terrazzo workers 1 1 1 — Roofers and slaters … … … 12 1 1 — Glaziers … … … … … — — — — Asphalt and bitumen road surfacers … 1 — — — Other roadmen … … … … 5 1 1 — Concrete erectors/assemblers … … 2 — — — Concrete levellers/screeders … … 2 — — — Mains and service layers and pipe jointers (gas, water, drainage, oil) … 3 — — — Mechanical plant drivers/operators (earth moving and civil engineering) … … 48 5 5 — Crane drivers/operators … … 8 1 1 — Fork lift and other mechanical truck drivers/operators … … … 5 — — — All other occupations, including labourers … … … … 1,929 153 112 41 Total, all occupations … … 2,657 202 150 52
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the estimated number of unemployed skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled textile workers (1) in the area covered by the Macclesfield constituency, (2) Congleton and (3) in Macclesfield, respectively, at the latest convenient date.
§ Mr. John FraserThe Macclesfield and Congleton employment office areas correspond broadly to the Macclesfield constituency. At November 1975, 138 unemployed people in the Macclesfield employment office area and 36 in the
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§ Mr. John FraserThe Macclesfield and Congleton employment office areas correspond broadly to the Macclesfield constituency. The following table shows for November 1975 an occupational analysis of unemployed males registered at employment offices who last worked in construction.
Congleton employment office area, a total of 174, last worked in textiles, Order XIII of the Standard Industrial Classification. I regret that analyses are not compiled showing the occupations of those who last worked in these industries.
§ Mr. Richard Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) how many construction workers were registered as unemployed during each of the last six months; and how many of these were registered as unemployed for 645W the first time during each respective month;
(2) how many woollen and worsted textile workers were registered as unemployed during each of the last six months; and how many of these were registered as unemployed for the first time during each respective month.
§ Mr. John FraserStatistics of the unemployed identify the industry in which registrants last worked but do not show how many were registered for the first time. Following is the information available which relates to the numbers unemployed on the day of the monthly counts.
Number unemployed who last worked in Construction Number unemployed who last worked in Woollen and Worsted 13th November 1975 184,734 5,407 9th October 1975 175,344 5,030 8th September 1975 169,409 5,027 11th August 1975 163,558 4,721 14th July 1975 156,737 4,041 9th June 1975 149,834 3,815 Construction is Minimum List Heading 500 of the Standard Industrial Classification and Woollen and Worsted is Minimum List Heading 414.