§ Mr. Gwynfor Evansasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many men were in employment in Wales in August 1964 and August 1976, respectively.
§ Mr. GoldingThe most recent estimates are for June 1976 when there were 605,000 male employees in employment in Wales. This figure is provisional. The earliest comparable information is for June 1965 when the estimate was 708,000. The figure for June 1965 is from the continuous series of employment estimates published in the August 1976 issue of theDepartment of Employment Gazette which allows for discontinuities present in previously published data.
The figures do not include a number of male employees in the Welsh sector 186W of the Chester Employment Office area, currently estimated to be about 4,000.