§ Mr. Parkasked the Secretary of State for Employment what were the numbers of employees in service industries for the
NUMBERS REGISTERED AS UNEMPLOYED Total Up to 4 weeks Over 4 weeks South-East … … … 267,364 41,038 226,326 East Anglia … … … 31,328 4,519 26,809 South-West … … … 89,121 11,469 77,652 West Midlands … … … 117,689 14,549 103,140 East Midlands … … … 70,882 8,072 62,810 Yorkshire and Humberside … 112,917 14,131 98,786 North-West … … … 191,066 22,494 168,572 North … … … 109,636 13,532 96,104 Wales … … … 83,024 10,012 73,012 Scotland … … … 165,441 20,591 144,850 Great Britain … … … 1,238,468 160,407 1,078,061
§ Mr. Parkasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many persons joined the unemployment register during the past three months, or to the nearest convenient date; and how many left the register during the same period.
132Wlatest month for which statistics are available, nationally and regionally.
§ Mr. Jim LesterThe following table gives provisional estimates of the numbers of employees in employment in the service industries at December 1978, the latest date for which this information is available.
Thousands South-East and East Anglia* 5,343 South-West 922 West Midlands 1,046 East Midlands 718 Yorkshire and Humberside 1,035 North-West 1,469 North 663 Wales 550 Scotland 1,192 Great Britain 12,938 Service industries have been taken as Orders XXII-XXVII of the Standard Industrial Classification (1968). *Estimates are not available for the South-East and East Anglia regions separately.