§ Mr. Rifkindasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will list the unemployment figures in Scotland for the month of July for each year since 1945.
§ Mr. Golding,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 27th July 1976; Vol. 916, c.82],gave the following information:
The table below shows information from July 1948, the year in which the present series of figures started: 550W
Numbers registered as unemployed in Scotland July 1948 … 51,760 July 1949 … 50,998 July 1950 … 56,828 July 1951 … 41,283 July 1952 … 56,625 July 1953 … 52,657 July 1954 … 47,928 July 1955 … 42,251 July 1956 … 41,533 July 1957 … 45,485 July 1958 … 68,965 July 1959 … 81,559 July 1960 … 66,323 July 1961 … 57,398 July 1962 … 72,952 July 1963 … 92,599 July 1964 … 72,938 July 1965 … 57,780 July 1966 … 53,278 July 1967 … 78,622 July 1968 … 77,930 July 1969 … 76,066 July 1970 … 88,398 July 1971 … 126,230 July 1972 … 132,400 July 1973 … 91,989 July 1974 … 86,760 July 1975 … 122,775 July 1976 (provisional) … 165,649