§ Mr. Hordernasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were unemployed for more than six months at the latest convenient date; and how many were unemployed at the same date in each of the preceding 10 years.
§ Mr. GoldingThe following table gives the numbers of people in Great Britain who had been registered as unemployed for more than 26 weeks at April each year from 1968:
April 1968 168,399 April 1969 171,432 April 1970 178,223 April 1971 208,068 April 1972 323,363 April 1973 273,582 April 1974 203,481 April 1975 248,895 April 1976 467,720 April 1977 559,115 April 1978 616,707