§ Mr. Viggersasked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the numbers of unemployed and the number of job vacancies in Gosport, the number of those unemployed who are young people and the number who are school leavers, the figures all being given at the latest convenient date and with comparative figures for 1973 and 1974.
§ Mr. John FraserThe following table shows the numbers of unemployed registered for employment at the Gosport employment office and the corresponding statistics of unfilled vacancies. The vacancy figures relate only to vacancies notified to the employment offices and are not a measure of total vacancies. Also, Gosport is part of a wider travel-to-work area which includes Portsmouth, Havant and Fareham.
Information about unemployed young people and school leavers registered at careers offices is available for the whole of the area covered by the main careers office at Fareham but there are no separate statistics for the Gosport sub-office.
Gosport Employment Office Unemployed Notified unfilled vacancies October 1975 1,009 85 October 1974 550 289 October 1973 351 533