HC Deb 22 March 1978 vol 946 c590W
Mr. Teddy Taylor

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will state the last year in which average unemployment was as high as it was, on average, in 1977.

Mr. Golding

, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 6th March 1978; Vol. 945, c. 504–5], gave the following information:

Estimates on a basis broadly comparable to current definitions indicate that the unemployment rate in 1939 was higher—significantly so—than in 1977. In addition, the temporarily stopped were very much higher.