§ Mr. Muddasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many of the unemployed in, the Camborne-Redruth and Hayle areas, where unemployment is approaching 10 per cent., have now received the special assistance and can be included amongst the 100,000 persons who were promised help to mitigate the worst effects of unemployment by the measures announced on 24th September 1975.
666Was fishermen at employment offices in the principal fishing ports. Figures on a broadly comparable basis are available from the introduction of the Classification of Occupations and Directory of Occupational Titles in December 1972.
§ Mr. Emeryasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many of the unemployed in the Honiton, Ottery St. Mary and Sidmouth areas, where unemployment is approaching 8 per cent., have now received the special assistance and can be included amongst the 100,000 persons who were promised help to mitigate the worst effects of unemployment by the measures announced on 24th September 1975.
§ Mr. Hicksasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) how many of those unemployed in the Bodmin, Liskeard, Looe Employment Exchange areas, and Gunnislake, Torpoint and Saltash sub-areas of the Plymouth employment exchange area have received the special assistance under the terms of the measures announced on 24th September 1975 and thus can be included amongst the 100,000 persons who have qualified for financial help designed to alleviate the worst effects of unemployment;
(2) how many of those unemployed in the South-West Development Area and Plymouth Intermediate Area have received the special assistance under the terms of the measures announced on 24th September 1975, and can thus be included amongst the 100,000 persons who have qualified for the financial help designed to alleviate the worst effects of unemployment.
§ Mr. Peter Millsasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many of the unemployed in the Torrington, Okehampton, Ivybridge and Tavistock areas, where unemployment is high, have now received the special assistance and can be included amongst the 100,000 persons who were promised help to mitigate the 667W worst effects of unemployment by the measures announced on the 24th September 1975.
§ Miss Fookesasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many of the unemployed in the Plymouth travel-to-work area have now received the Government's special assistance and can therefore be included among the 100,000 people promised help to mitigate the ill effects of unemployment by the measure announced on 24th September 1975.
§ Mr. Maxwell-Hyslopasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many of the unemployed in the Tiverton, Cullompton and Teignmouth areas have now received the special assistance and can be included amongst the 100,000 persons who were promised help to mitigate the worst effects of unemployment by the measures announced on the 24th September 1975.
§ Mr. John FraserUnder the job creation programme I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that up to 7th November proposals for 26 schemes had been submitted by local authorities in the South-West to create 324 jobs, as follows:
Authority Projects Restormel Borough Council, Cornwall 3 Plymouth City Council 16 Cornwall County Council 7 Under the Recruitment Subsidy scheme for school leavers employers in the South-West have applied for subsidies in respect of 292 school leavers. Only regional figures are available at present. In addition, seven applications have been received under the temporary employment subsidy scheme from employers in the South-West covering the jobs of 1,388 workers. Five of these applications covering 1,028 workers have been approved and the others are still under consideration. The other short-term measures announced on 24th September, i.e., those concerned with training, mobility, industrial investment and factory building supplement existing programmes and their effects, cannot be distinguished from the latter.