§ Mr. Molloyasked the Secretary of State for Employment what measures he is taking to cater for the retraining of
Numbers registered as unemployed Percentage rates of unemployment Males Females Total Teenagers included in total Males Females Total Merseyside Special Development Area 58,934 21,638 80,572 18,791 12.7 7.4 10.6 Liverpool travel-to-work area 52,234 18,559 70,793 16,906 13.4 7.4 11.0 The unemployment rates for teenagers cannot be calculated.
Numbers registered as unemployed analysed according to the length of time unemployed Over 13 weeks Over 26 weeks and up to 26 weeks and up to 52 weeks Over 52 weeks* Merseyside Special Development Area … … … 13,770 18,611 24,947 Liverpool travel-to-work area … … … 13,501 15,648 21,967 * The analysis does not distinguish separately the those registered for more than eighteen months or more than two years. All figures are provisional.