HC Deb 19 April 1978 vol 948 cc206-7W
Mr. David Mitchell

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing the level of unemployed registered in the Basingstoke area for all categories and separately for school leavers in February or March annually from 1973 to 1978 inclusive, and a similar table of job vacancies, with an indication of whether the figures of unemployed include those formerly self-employed or not.

Mr. Golding

The following table gives the number of people registered as

Notified unfilled vacancies at
Total unemployed School-leavers included in total Employment Offices Careers Offices
March 1973 436 5 579 231
March 1974 569 2 539 213
March 1975 587 3 306 107
March 1976 1,360 29 328 71
March 1977 1,654 48 273 391
March 1978 1,621 30 540 292

The vacancy figures relate only to vacancies notified to employment offices and careers offices and are not a measure of total vacancies. Because of possible duplication the two series should not be added together.