§ Mr. Biffenasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the number and percentage of unemployed registered with the Market Drayton employment exchange; and how these figures are divided between employment categories.
§ Mr. GoldingIn the area covered by the Market Drayton Employment Office, 491 people were registered as unemployed 629W in January 1977 and the rate of unemployment was 10.2 per cent. These figures are provisional. The following table shows an industrial analysis of the numbers unemployed, at August 1976. These analyses are made quarterly but because of industrial action by some staff in the Department of Employment Group the November count was incomplete.
Percentage rate 11.2 Numbers unemployed 541 I Agriculture, forestry and fishing 53 II Mining and quarrying 1 III Food, drink and tobacco 23 IV Coal and petroleum products 1 V Chemicals and allied industries 8 VII Mechanical engineering 19 IX Electrical engineering 9 X Shipbuilding and marine engineering 1 XI Vehicles 1 XII Metal goods not elsewhere specified 2 XIII Textiles 2 XV Clothing and footwear 14 XVI Bricks, pottery, glass, cement, etc. 4 XVII Timber, furniture, etc. 7 XVIII Paper, printing and publishing 3 XIX Other m anufacturing industries 3 XX Construction 75 XXII Transport and communication 13 XXIII Distributive trades 47 XXIV Insurance, banking finance and business services 10 XXV Professional and scientific services 29 XXVI Miscellaneous services 48 XXVII Public administration and defence 14 Not classified by industry* 154 * Includes school leavers.