§ Mr. Parkasked the Secretary of State for Employment what percentage of those currently registered unemployed in Coventry are over 60 years of age.
§ Mr. GoldingAt 12th January, 7 per cent. of those registered as unemployed in the Coventry employment office area were 60 years of age or over.
§ Mr. Parkasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the respective figures for registered unemployed and unfilled vacancies in Coventry for the latest month for which statistics are available in comparison with the levels for 1975 and 1976.
§ Mr. GoldingFollowing is the information for the Coventry employment office area:
Notified unfilled vacancies Numbers registered as unemployed At Employment Office At Careers Offices January 1976 13,054 324 74 January 1978 12,442 1,287 117 Because of industrial action by some staff in the Department of Employment Group figures for January 1975 are not available.
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 sets of figures should not be added together.
§ Mr. Parkasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many building trade craftsmen were unemployed in Coventry to the latest convenient date.
§ Mr. GoldingThe following table gives the numbers of unemployed people registered696W at the Coventry employment office at 12th January for work in certain selected occupations in the construction industry.
Carpenters and joiners 70 Electricians 10 Linesmen and cable jointers — Heating and ventilating engineering fitters 6 Plumbers, pipe fitters and gas fitters 28 Metal scaffolders 7 Other steel erectors and riggers and cable splicers 3 Painters and decorators 79 Bricklayers and stone setters 60 Plasterers 12 Terrazzo workers and tile setters 3 Roofers 3 Glaziers 4 General builders 5 Pipe layers and jointers 5 Site work concreters 1 Earth movers and civil engineering equipment operators 12 Crane, hoist and other materials handling equipment operators 9 Total of above 317
§ Mr. Parkasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many persons under 18 years of age were unemployed in Coventry at the latest available date.
§ Mr. GoldingAt 12th January, the latest date for which this information is available, 1,583 people under 18 years of age were registered as unemployed in the Coventry employment office area.