§ Mr. Ovendenasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many qualified nurses are registered as unemployed in the United Kingdom; and what is the figure for each county.
§ Mr. Golding, pursuant to his reply [Official Report 16th December 1977; Vol. 941, c. 448], gave the following information:
The following table shows the numbers of unemployed people registered at offices in each county at 8th September for employment as qualified nurses:
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TOTAL UNEMPLOYED NURSE ADMINISTRATORS AND EXECUTIVES, AND STATE REGISTERED AND STATE ENROLLED NURSES AND STATE CERTIFIED MIDWIVES FOR EACH COUNTY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND—AT SEPTEMBER 1977 County (by Region) Total South-East Bedfordshire 50 Berkshire 51 Buckinghamshire 33 East Sussex 57 Essex 103 Greater London 623 Hampshire 127 Hertfordshire 62 Isle of Wight 15 Kent 97 Oxfordshire 46 Surrey 38 West Sussex 34 East Anglia Cambridgeshire 47 Norfolk 59 Suffolk 55 South West Avon 94 Cornwall 61 Devon 137 Dorset 77 Gloucestershire 58 Somerset 35 Wiltshire 78
West Midands West Midlands Metropolitan 243 Hereford and Worcester 29 Salop 30 Staffordshire 52 Warwickshire 24 East Midlands Derbyshire 43 Leicestershire 59 Lincolnshire 64 Northamptonshire 36 Nottinghamshire 61 Yorkshire and Humberside South Yorkshire Metropolitan 128 West Yorkshire Metropolitan 178 Humbersire 59 North Yorkshire 65 North West Greater Manchester Metroplitan 188 Merseyside Metropolitan 153 Cheshire 106 Lancashire 121 North Cleveland 66 Cumbria 94 Durham 89 Northumberland 34 Tyne and Wear Metropolitan 155 Wales Clwyd 51 Dyfed 50 Gwent 49 Gwynedd 43 Mid-Glamorgan 45 Powys 14 South Glamorgan 22 West Glamorgan 54 Scotland Borders 5 Central 40 Dumfries and Galloway 15 Fife 92 Grampian 64 Highlands 43 Lothians 59 Orkneys 5 Shetlands 1 Strathclyde 318 Tayside 67 Western Isles 11 Northern Ireland 420 United Kingdom 5,588