§ Mr. Maurice Macmillanasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will set out in the Official Report in tabular form, for each of the employment service offices within the Farnham parliamentary constituency, (a) the number of persons unemployed by previous trade, (b) the number of unemployed young people who have had no employment for more than three months since leaving school and are at the present time registered as unemployed, (c) the number of people resident in the Farnham parliamentary constituency who are currently employed under the youth opportunities programme, and the special temporary employment programme and (d) the number of vacancies for each trade for the latest convenient date.
§ Mr. GoldingThe following table gives for the Farnham, Godalming and Lip-hook employment office areas, which together correspond closely to the Farnham parliamentary constituency, the numbers of people registered as unemployed analysed according to the industry in which they last worked, the numbers 319W of unfilled vacancies in these industries and the numbers of unemployed school leavers. The industrial figures are for 10th August, the latest date for which this quarterly information is available.
Farnham Godalming Liphook Unfilled vacancies Unfilled vacancies Unfilled vacancies Unemployed at employment office at careers office Unemployed at employment office at careers office Unemployed at employment office Agriculture, forestry, fishing 12 — 4 14 7 5 8 — Mining and quarrying — — — — — — — — Food, drink and tobacco 4 — — 1 — — 1 — Coal and petroleum products 2 — — 2 — — — — Chemicals and allied industries 4 — — 1 3 1 2 — Metal manufacture 1 — — — — — 1 — Mechanical engineering 17 22 4 20 6 2 6 2 Instrument engineering 1 1 2 — 2 — 2 — Electrical engineering 3 12 1 7 4 1 3 1 Shipbuilding and marine engineering — — — 1 — — 2 — Vehicles — — — 2 13 — 3 — Metal goods not elsewhere specified 2 2 1 3 4 — 7 — Textiles — — — 6 4 5 1 — Leather, leather goods and fur — — — 1 — — 1 — Clothing and footwear 1 — — 3 — — — — Bricks, pottery, glass, cement, etc. 3 — — — — — 1 — Timber, furniture, etc. 13 5 4 — 1 3 — 3 Paper, printing and publishing 4 2 — 2 1 — 4 1 Other manufacturing industries 4 2 3 6 5 — 6 1 Construction 28 10 3 19 27 2 50 3 Gas, electricity and water 3 1 — 5 2 3 1 — Transport and communication 19 2 — 9 8 — 15 — Distributive trades 54 39 13 30 21 18 24 1 Insurance, banking, finance and business services 16 3 3 14 5 6 10 1 Professional and scientific services 35 8 3 32 51 8 30 — Miscellaneous services 61 38 11 42 59 5 48 7 Public administration and defence 61 15 2 44 16 3 35 5 Not elsewhere specified (including school leavers) 175 — — 164 — — 73 — TOTALS 523 162 54 428 239 62 334 25 Unemployed school leavers at 12th October (included above) 8 — — 14 — — — —
The vacancy figures relate only to vacancies notified to employment offices and careers offices; vacancies notified to employment offices are estimated to be about country one-third of all vacancies in the count as a whole. Because of possible duplication the two series should not be added together. There is no careers office at Liphook. I am informed by the chairman of the Manpower Services Commission that, in respect of the youth opportunities programme and the special temporary employment programme, the information is not available in the form requested. In October, some 15 people, placed by careers offices and employment services division offices of the Manpower Services Commission within the Farnham parliamentary constituency were on schemes
320WStatistics are available of the total numbers of unemployed school leavers but not of those unemployed for more than three months. The figures given are for three months. The figures given are for 12th October.
under the youth opportunities programme; no special temporary employment programme scheme was operational in this area.