§ Mr. Goodladasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people have been registered as unemployed for more than eight weeks in each of the employment areas in Cheshire; and what were the comparable figures in each of the last four years.
§ Mr. GoldingThe following table gives the numbers registered as unemployed for more than eight weeks in each of the employment office areas in Cheshire. Information is not available for January 1974 because of an energy crisis and for January 1975 because of industrial action by some staff in the Department of Employment group.
25 years of age registered as unemployed in each of the employment office areas in Cheshire. Information is not available for January 1974 because of an energy crisis and for January 1975 because of industrial action by some staff in the Department of Employment group.
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§ Mr. GoldingThe following table gives the numbers of married women—including any who may not have worked before
January 1973 January 1976 January 1977 January 1978 Chester 50 213 341 387 Congleton 19 39 31 31 Crewe 22 169 149 193 Ellesmere Port 69 200 390 444 Macclesfield 20 111 111 136 Middlewich 4 29 30 30 Nantwich 11 28 27 32 Neston 10 53 68 88 Northwich 26 44 85 99 Runcorn 89 250 557 653 Sandbach 13 38 53 60 Warrington 103 402 388 426 Widnes 141 212 302 312 Wilmslow 1 28 71 81 Winsford 40 56 118 162
§ Mr. Goodladasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will indicate for each of the employment protection measures introduced by the present Government the number of jobs saved in each of the last four years in each of the employment areas in Cheshire.
§ Mr. GoldingI regret that I am unable to give the information in the precise form requested. Statistics of persons helped under these schemes are not maintained on an annual basis. Cumulative figures by employment office areas are, however, kept in respect of the temporary employment subsidy, the job release scheme, the youth employment subsidy, the recruitment subsidy for school leavers and the job introduction scheme. Figures for
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Temporary Employment Subsidy Job Release Scheme Youth Employment Subsidy Recruitment for Subsidy school leavers Job Introduction Scheme Employment office 18/8/75–27/1/78 3/1/77–27/1/78 1/10/76–27/1/78 13/10/75–30/9/76 4/7/77–2/2/78 Chester 499 102 129 146 Nil Congleton 439 19 13 24 1 Crewe 736 88 20 38 1 Ellesmere Port 336 68 127 83 Nil Macclesfield 654 25 29 24 Nil Middlewich 98 17 Nil Nil Nil Nantwich 45 16 4 1 Nil Neston 60 16 7 Nil Nil Northwich 194 47 31 28 Nil Runcorn 79 48 114 56 1 Sandbach 88 16 1 Nil Nil Warrington 911 197 175 124 Nil Widnes 135 55 147 74 3 Wilmslow 76 25 9 17 Nil Winsford 875 20 15 10 2 —registered as unemployed in each of the employment office areas in Cheshire. Information was not collected because of an energy crisis in January 1974 and because of industrial action by some staff in the Department of Employment group in January 1975.
employment office areas in Cheshire and the periods to which they relate are shown in the table below.
Statistics for the job creation programme are collected on a local authority basis. In the county of Cheshire, since the scheme began on 9th October 1975, 2,604 temporary jobs have been created. Figures for the work experience programme are by parliamentary constituency, and in the constituencies which are wholly or partly within the county of Cheshire there are currently 1,293 places available.
Figures for the small firms employment subsidy are available for the Merseyside Special Development area only.
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§ Mr. Goodladasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) if he will give a breakdown according to the minimum industrial classification list of all unfilled vacancies in each of the Cheshire employment areas in November 1972, 1973, 1974. 1975, 1976 and 1977;
(2) if he will give a breakdown according to the minimum industrial classification list of all those unemployed in each of the Cheshire employment areas in November 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 and 1977.
§ Mr. GoldingI regret that the information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
§ Mr. Goodladasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many job vac
January 1974 January 1976 January 1978 Employment offices Careers offices Employment offices Careers offices Employment offices Careers offices Chester 394 131 85 14 208 8 Congleton† 59 — 17 17 34 20 Crewe 325 100 102 44 165 30 Ellesmere Port 188 101 32 6 134 7 Macclesfield 303 275 62 55 121 27 Middlewich* 30 — 22 — 12 — Nantwich* 62 — 25 — 33 — Neston* 41 — 21 — 31 — Northwich 91 154 36 35 70 8 Runcorn† 125 — 137 8 148 7 Sandbach* 35 — 43 — 25 — Warrington 855 131 493 34 426 24 Widnes 102 25 37 10 83 7 Wilmslow 96 183 125 55 173 41 Winsford* 118 — 85 — 94 — * Areas for which no separate vacancy statistics are available for carees offices because the careers service is administered from another area † The careers offices in these areas opened after January 1974.