§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table 335W showing the number of construction workers who have been unemployed for more than 26 weeks.
§ Mr. GoldingI regret that this information is not available; analyses combining industry and duration of unemployment are not compiled.
§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people are currently unemployed in the construction industry in Scotland; and what this represents as a percentage increase on February 1974.
§ Mr. GoldingAt 12th May, the number of people registered as unemployed in Scotland who last worked in the construction industry was 28,496. This was 52.2 per cent. more than in February 1974. The figures for individual industries are not available on a seasonally adjusted basis.