§ Mr. Pardoeasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the unemployment figures for Belfast, Ballymurphy, New Barnsley, Milltown, Turf Lodge, St. Pauls and Lower Falls, respectively, and for Northern Ireland as a whole, for the past 10 years.
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§ Mr. ConcannonThe information can be given only for the Belfast employment service area, the electoral wards in the West Belfast parliamentary constituency—since February 1979—and for Northern Ireland, as shown in the tables below. It is only possible to give the percentage rates of unemployment for the travel to work areas and for Northern 807W Ireland as a whole. The percentage figures for Northern Ireland are shown in brackets in Table 1.
TABLE 1 Total unemployed at February Belfast Employment Service Area Northern Ireland 1970 10,726 34,582 (6.9) 1971 11,848 37,622 (7.6) 1972 12,809 41,939 (8.5) 1973 10,639 35,773 (7.0) 1974 7,821 29,619 (5.7) 1975 8,762 34,691 (6.5) 1976 16,062 50,989 (9.3) 1977 18,893 56,660 (10.3) 1978 19,963 62,811 (11.7) 1979 20,471 64,245 (11.8)
TABLE 2 Electoral Wards in West Belfast Parliamentary Constituency Total Unemployed at February 1979 Andersontown 785 Central 430 Clonard 518 Court 173 Donegall 302 Falls 463 Grosvenor 291 Highfield 376 Ladybrook 623 Milltown 454 North Howard 86 St. George's 196 St. James 506 Suffolk 836 Whiterock 1,216