§ Mr. Pardoeasked the Secretary of State for Employment what percentage of construction workers were unemployed at the latest date for which information is available in England and Wales, Scotland, the South-West Region and Cornwall, respectively.
§ Mr. GoldingThe following table gives unemployment rates in the construction industry at August 1977, the latest date for which this information is available:
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Per cent. England and Wales 13.6 Scotland 15.2 South West region 14.5 Cornwall 19.3 These figures have been calculated by expressing the numbers unemployed whose last job was in construction as percentages of the total numbers of employees—employed and unemployed—in that industry.