§ Mr. Georgeasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list in the Official Report the number of (a) males, and (b) females in the United Kingdom unemployed for six or more months, expressed as a percentage of (a) male, and (b) female and (c) all, employees, since 1945.
§ Mr. John FraserOwing to industrial action at local offices of the Employment Service Agency the normal quarterly analysis by duration of unemployment is not available for January 1975 and the most recent figures are for October 1974. The following table shows information for each October from 1962 and for each September from 1948, when the current series of unemployment statistics started, to 1961. The rates have been calculated by expressing the numbers unemployed for more than 26 weeks as a percentage of the estimated number of employees, including the unemployed. The figures are for Great Britain and do not include Northern Ireland: 265W
UNEMPLOYED IN GREAT BRITAIN (a) (b) (c) Males unemployed for more than 26 weeks as a percentage of all male employees Females unemployed for more than 26 weeks as a percentage of all female employees Total unemployed for more than 26 weeks as a percentage of all employees September 1948 … 0.5 0.1 0.3 September 1949 … 0.4 0.1 0.3 September 1950 … 0.4 0.1 0.3 September 1951 … 0.3 0.1 0.2 September 1952 … 0.3 0.2 0.3 September 1953 … 0.3 0.2 0.3 September 1954 … 0.3 0.1 0.2 September 1955 … 0.2 0.1 0.2 September 1956 … 0.2 0.1 0.2 September 1957 … 0.3 0.1 0.3 September 1958 … 0.5 0.2 0.4 September 1959 … 0.6 0.3 0.5 September 1960 … 0.5 0.2 0.4 September 1961 … 0.4 0.2 0.3 October 1962 … … 0.6 0.2 0.5 October 1963 … … 0.8 0.3 0.6 October 1964 … … 0.6 0.2 0.4 October 1965 … … 0.5 0.2 0.4 October 1966 … … 0.5 0.1 0.3 October 1967 … … 0.8 0.2 0.6 October 1968 … … 1.0 0.2 0.7 October 1969 … … 1.0 0.2 0.7 October 1970 … … 1.1 0.2 0.7 October 1971 … … 1.5 0.3 1.1 October 1972 … … 1.9 0.4 1.3 October 1973 … … 1.3 0.3 0.9 October 1974* … … 1.3 0.2 0.9 * Includes estimates for a small proportion of offices.