HC Deb 28 February 1978 vol 945 c155W
21. Mr. Heffer

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many long-term unemployed, namely, those unemployed for more than 12 months, there are on Merseyside and in Liverpool as part of Merseyside.

Mr. Golding

At 12th January, there were 28,199 people in the Merseyside special development area who had been registered as unemployed for more than 52 weeks; of these 25,287 were in the Liverpool travel-to-work area.