§ Mr. Hefferasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the latest level of unemployment on Merseyside; how 613W many workers are unemployed giving separate figures for males, females and youths; what percentage this represents; how this compares with the national average; how many notifications of jobs there are; and whether the trend is upwards or downwards.
Merseyside Special Development Area Great Britain Number unemployed … … … … 81,100 1,320,923 of which— males … … … … 59,076 972,159 females … … … … 22,024 348,764 school-leavers … … … … 8,067 77,957 Percentage rate of unemployment … … … … 10.7 5.7 Notified unfilled vacancies— at employment offices … … … … 2,725 137,713 at careers offices … … … … 174 22,661 Comprehensive figures of the numbers of unemployed young people are not available for October 1976. At July 1976, the numbers under 20 years of age were 27,389 in the Merseyside special development area and 390,246 in Great Britain. Separate figures are available each month showing the numbers of school leavers unemployed and these are shown in the table above.
Notified unfilled vacancies Numbers unemployed Employment offices Careers offices October 1975 … … … … 72,282 2,670 204 November 1975 … … … 73,002 3,006 277 December 1975 … … … … 74,156 2,921 175 January 1976 … … … … 77,278 2,008 194 February 1976 … … … … 76,495 2,088 242 March 1976 … … … … 75,010 2,273 242 April 1976 … … … … 75,390 2,442 229 May 1976 … … … … 75,994 2,185 169 June 1976 … … … … 80,997 2,231 155 July 1976 … … … … 86,620 2,169 124 August 1976 … … … … 87,153 2,452 135 September 1976 … … … 85,612 2,639 205 October 1976 … … … … 81,100 2,725 174 The vacancy figures relate only to vacancies notified to employment offices and careers offices and are not a measure of total vacancies. Because of possible duplication, the two series should not be added together.