§ Mrs. Renèe Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment what have been the total registered unemployed and what percentage this represents in the Wolverhampton area and the West Midlands area for each of the past 10 years.
§ Mr. Jim Lester[pursuant to his reply, 25 November 1980]: The following table gives the numbers registered as unemployed and the percentage rates of unemployment in the Wolverhampton travel-to-work area and in the West Midlands region at November 1980 and, where available, at November each year from 1971.