Noise (Hansard, 15 March 1978)

§ Mr. John Grant

Any report from the Health and Safety Executive Advisory Working Party on Noise would go to the Health and Safety Commission. I am informed by the Chairman of the Health and Safety Commission that a working party, consisting of representatives of the TUC and the CBI and inde-

	At 9th February 1978		Unemployment rate at date of achieving present status
Employment Office or travel-to-work area		Present Assisted Area Status	Unemployment rate	Number of unemployed	Estimated number of employees, employed and unemployed, at June 1976	Date of achieving present status	Local Area	Great Britain
Bideford	…	DA	9.3	1,101	11,802	19.8.66	2.7	1.3
Bude	…	DA	13.1	612	4,685	19.8.66	3.0	1.3
Camelford	…	DA	14.8	373	2,517	19.8.66	2.3	1.3
Falmouth	…	DA	13.1	1,469	11,207	19.8.66	3.7	1.3
Helston	…	DA	19.5	1,074	5,501	19.8.66	4.7	1.3
Ilfracombe	…	DA	19.4	817	4,216	19.8.66	2.4	1.3
Newquay	…	DA	15.0	1,395	9,277	19.8.66	1.7	1.3
Penzance	…	DA	15.1	1,731	11,472	19.8.66	2.4	1.3
St. Ives	…	DA	20.1	677	3,361	19.8.66	2.4	1.3
Truro	…	DA	9.4	1,560	16,617	19.8.66	2.9	1.3
Wadebridge	…	DA	14.6	512	3,504	19.8.66	4.1	1.3
Liskeard^*	…	DA	13.0	844	6,471	19.8.66	2.9	1.3
Redruth^*	…	DA	12.1	2,685	22,219	19.8.66	3.1	1.3
Whitby	…	DA	11 .7	635	5,444	19.8.66	2.9	1.3
Liverpool^*	…	SDA	11 .7	75,120	639,869	14.8.74	7.3	2.8

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pendent members who are authorities in the field, was established to advise the Health and Safety Executive in the preparation of draft proposals for occupational noise legislation. The work is well advanced, but no date has been fixed for the proposals to be forwarded to the Commission.