§ 27. Mr. Hardyasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many persons are in full-time employment in Yorkshire and Humberside; and, of these, how many are in jobs which have been created, retained or otherwise directly supported by his Department.
§ Mr. GoldingI regret that I am unable to give the information in the precise 159W form requested. The latest date for which comprehensive employment figures are available is June 1976 when there were 1,967,500 employees in employment in Yorkshire and Humberside, of whom 1,572,646 were full-time workers. This compares with a total estimate of 1,991,000 in September 1977, of whom the proportion in full-time employment is not known. Statistics on the total number of people assisted by my Department's special employment measures for similar months could only be supplied at a disproportionate cost. Current cumulative figures are available, however, and these show that nearly 67,000 people in the region have benefited from the temporary employment subsidy, the job creation programme, the recruitment subsidy for school leavers, the youth employment subsidy, the work experience programme and the job release scheme.