§ Mr. Hollandasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the total annual cost of fees, allowances and/or salaries paid to individuals, other than civil servants, appointed by him to bodies
NUMBERS UNEMPLOYED, RATES OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNFILLED VACANCIES IN THE SOUTHAMPTON TRAVEL-TO-WORK AREA Notified vacancies remaining unfilled Numbers Unemployed Per cent* at Employment Offices at Careers Offices March 1971 … … … 5,470 3.3 888 292 March 1972 … … … 6,070 3.6 982 190 March 1973 … … … 3,924 2.3 2,318 435 March 1974 … … … 3,690 2.1 1,897 582 March 1975 … … … 5,267 3.0 832 267 March 1976† … … … 8,644 5.0 746 131 * Rates of unemployment are calculated by expressing the numbers unemployed as a percentage of the estimated total number of employees, including the unemployed. † Provisional.
Employees in employment in the Southampton travel-to-work area June 1971 … … … 159,000 June 1972 … … … 165,000 June 1973 … … … 170,000 Note: Following local authority reorganisation in April 1974, employees could not always be allocated satisfactorily to local areas. Although national and regional figures for mid-1974 were produced, it was not possible to compile estimates for local areas.
354Wother than committees, but including quasi-judicial bodies.