§ Mr. Dempseyasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report figures showing the number of building trade workers unemployed in Lanarkshire at the most recent convenient date giving details of the various crafts to which these unemployed workers belong.
§ Mr. GoldingAt August 1976, the latest date for which a full industrial analysis is available, there were 2,838 registered unemployed people who last worked in the construction industry in the former county of Lanarkshire. More recent information is available for those registered at employment offices for work in certain selected occupations and the following table shows this information for 13th January. It does not include all194W unemployed people who last worked in the industry.
Carpenters and joiners 297 Electricians 50 Linesmen and cable jointers 5 Heating and ventilating engineering fitters 2 Plumbers and other heating and ventilating and pipe fitters 89 Metal scaffolders 17 Other steel erectors and riggers and cable splicers 79 Painters and decorators 159 Bricklayers and stone setters 190 Plasterers 76 Terrazzo workers and tile setters 12 Roofers 37 Glaziers 5 General builders 1 Pipe layers and jointers 14 Site work concreters 1 Earth moving and civil engineering equipment operators 96 Crane, hoist and other materials handling equipment operators 97 Total 1,227