HC Deb 27 July 1979 vol 971 cc626-8W
Mr. Golding

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he wil list the travel-to-work areas with rates of male unemployment at 6 per cent. or over from which the special temporary employment programme has been withdrawn.

Mr. Jim Lester,

pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 13 July 1979],gave the following answer:

Travel-to-work areas where the rates of unemployment exceed 6 per cent. at the unemployment count on 14 June 1979, and in which new applications for funding under the special temporary employment programme will not now be accepted, are as follows:

  • South East:
  • Bletchley
  • Clacton
  • Lymington
  • Margate
  • Sheerness
  • Brighton
  • Canterbury
  • Chatham
  • Hastings
  • Portsmouth
  • Ramsgate
  • Southend
  • Folkestone
  • Sittingbourne

East Anglia:

  • Cromer
  • Dereham>
  • Downham Market
  • Fakenham
  • Halesworth
  • Hunstanton
  • Kings Lynn
  • Lowestoft
  • March
  • Wisbech

South West:

  • Bath
  • Bridport
  • Dartmouth
  • Honiton
  • Kingsbridge
  • Okehampton
  • Shaftesbury
  • Tiverton
  • Weston-Super-Mare
  • Weymouth
  • Swindon
  • Bristol
  • Exeter
  • Torbay
  • Axminster
  • Bridgwater

West Midlands:

  • Ledbury
  • Leominster
  • Ludlow
  • Market Drayton
  • Oswestry
  • Ross-on-Wye
  • Coventry
  • Oakengates
  • Walsall

East Midlands:

  • Alfreton
  • Boston
  • 628
  • Corby
  • Gainsborough
  • Homcastle
  • Lincoln
  • Louth
  • Mablethorpe
  • Mansfield
  • Skegness
  • Spalding
  • Worksop
  • Chesterfield

Yorks and Humber:

  • Bridlington
  • Goole
  • Wakefield

North West:

  • Chester
  • Blackpool
  • Lancaster

Wales

  • Monmouth