§ Mr. David Mitchellasked 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 207W of whether the figures of unemployed include those formerly self-employed or not.
§ Mr. GoldingThe 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.