§ Mr. David Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the numbers of unemployed and the number of job vacancies in Basingstoke and district, the number of those unemployed who are young people, and the number who are school leavers.
§ Mr. John FraserAt September 1975, 1,257 people were unemployed in the Basingstoke employment office area, of whom 320 were school leavers aged under 18. There were 350 notified unfilled vacancies at the Basingstoke employment office and 109 at the careers office. The vacancy figures relate only to vacancies notified to employment offices and careers offices and are not a measure of total vacancies. The most recent comprehensive figures showing the numbers of young people unemployed are from the detailed age analysis made in July 1975. At that date, of a total of 1,189 unemployed people in the Basingstoke area, 192 were aged under 18 and 140 were aged 18 but under 20.