§ Mr. David Youngasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many teachers are unemployed at present and at the same time in each of the past 10 years.
§ Mr. Jim LesterThe following table gives the numbers of unemployed people registered at employment offices in Great Britain for employment as schoolteachers at September 1979, the latest date for which an occupational analysis is available, and for the corresponding month each year from 1973. Corresponding figures prior to 1973 are not available.
September 1973 2,662 September 1974 2,452 September 1975 4,062 September 1976 7,820 September 1977 13,672 September 1978 13,136 September 1979 11,701