HC Deb 12 February 1980 vol 978 cc551-6W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for each year since 1967 (a) the number of unfilled vacancies in each region, (b) the numbers of wholly unemployed and (c) the number of vacancies as a percentage of those wholly unemployed.

Mr. Jim Lester

The following tables give the numbers of vacancies remaining unfilled and the numbers of people registered as unemployed in each standard region at January each year from 1967. The vacancy figures relate only to those notified to employment offices and careers offices; vacancies notified to employment offices are estimated to be about one-third of all vacancies in the country as a whole.

Because of this, and of possible duplication between the separate figures for employment offices and careers offices, the two series should not be added together and cannot be used to provide the proportions requested.

NOTIFIED UNFILLED VACANCIES SOUTH EAST
At employment offices At careers offices
January 1967 68,122 22,471
January 1968 66,176 24,075
January 1969 74,957 27,172
January 1970 75,856 26,781
January 1971 64,801 20,931
January 1972 46,247 13,801
January 1973 86,760 20,409
January 1974 134,349 35,989
January 1975* .. ..
January 1976 33,775 7,130
January 1977* .. ..
January 1978 66,206 9,027
January 1979 98,443 14,890
January 1980 85,489 11,568
East Anglia
At employment offices At careers offices
January 1967 3,695 1,272
January 1968 4,363 1,649
January 1969 5,210 1,738
January 1970 4,944 1,553
January 1971 3,491 338
January 1972 3,148 929
January 1973 6,622 1,743
January 1974 9,692 3,535
January 1975* .. ..
January 1976 2,462 564
January 1977* .. ..
January 1978 4,690 522
January 1979 6,217 801
January 1980 6,263 584
SOUTH WEST
At employment offices At careers offices
January1967 8,688 2,815
January 1968 8,773 3,419
January 1969 10,031 3,904
January 1970 9,618 3,441
January 1971 8,967 2,798
January 1972 7,892 2,395
January 1973 14,265 3,186
January 1974 20,643 5,466
January 1975* .. ..
January 1976 5,117 1,019
January 1977* .. ..
January 1978 8,494 706
January 1979 12,981 1,291
January 1980 11,942 866
WEST MIDLANDS
At employment offices At careers offices
January 1967 15,741 6,555
January 1968 13,828 6,122
January 1969 16,766 8,260
January 1970 15,302 6,651
January 1971 11,537 4,522
January 1972 7,182 2,603
January 1973 14,113 4,760
January 1974 23,572 10,345
January 1975* .. ..
January 1976 4,518 1,471
January 1977* .. ..
January 1978 11,395 1,612
January 1979 13,588 2,027
January 1980 11,849 1,200
EAST MIDLANDS
January 1967 11,361 4,837
January 1968 11,393 4,270
January 1969 12,221 5,340
January 1970 10,928 4,118
January 1971 9,086 2,807
January 1972 7,272 1,832
January 1973 12,597 2,987
January 1974 18,245 6,847
January 1975* .. ..
January 1976 5,710 1,295
January 1977* .. ..
January 1978 10,359 1,070
January 1979 15,424 1,370
January 1980 11,298 1,154
YORKSHIRRE/HUMBERSIDE
January 1967 14,095 7,385
January 1968 12,356 6,635
January 1969 14,128 6,703
January 1970 15,346 5,383
January 1971 11,391 4,351
January 1972 8,490 2,452
January 1973 13,691 4,419
January 1974 20,665 9,213
January 1975* .. ..
January 1976 5,929 1,457
January 1977* .. ..
January 1978 12,106 1,202
January 1979 14,939 1,455
January 1980 11,033 967
NORTH WEST
January 1967 19,402 6,662
January 1968 21,302 6,110
January 1969 23,961 7,648
January 1970 22,709 6,085
January 1971 16,149 4,819
January 1972 9,412 2,989
January 1973 14,233 3,927
January 1974 23,370 8,187
January 1975* .. ..
January 1976 8,030 1,741
January 1977* .. ..
January 1978 13,174 1,050
January 1979 16,941 1,458
January 1980 14,621 1,324
NORTH
At employment offices At careers offices
January 1967 6,418 1,636
January 1968 6,538 2,009
January 1969 7,109 2,712
January 1970 7,869 2,298
January 1971 6,495 2,068
January 1972 4,508 1,215
January 1973 7,982 1,574
January 1974 11,298 3,792
January 1975* .. ..
January 1976 5,762 854
January 1977* .. ..
January 1978 8,775 531
January 1979 9,604 480
January 1980 7,984 306
WALES
January 1967 5,864 1,362
January 1968 4,620 1,635
January 1969 5,077 2,113
January 1970 5,663 1,851
January 1971 5,374 1,733
January 1972 3,814 1,204
January 1973 5,317 1,735
January 1974 7,821 2,508
January 1975* .. ..
January 1976 3,845 552
January 1977* .. ..
January 1978 6,279 341
January 1979 7,344 434
January 1980 7,323 391
SCOTLAND
January 1967 10,695 4,772
January 1968 9,844 4,835
January 1969 11,474 5,741
January 1970 11,141 4,704
January 1971 7,197 3,326
January 1972 4,758 1,814
January 1973 9,371 2,017
January 1974 15,702 6,419
January 1975* .. ..
January 1976 11,636 1,817
January 1977* .. ..
January 1978 15,686 824
January 1979 18,108 961
January 1980 16,824 787
GREAT BRITAIN
January 1967 164,081 59,767
January 1968 159,193 60,759
January 1969 180,934 71,331
January 1970 179,376 62,866
January 1971 144,488 48,693
January 1972 102,723 31,234
January 1973 184,951 46,757
January 1974 285,357 92,301
January 1975* .. ..
January 1976 86,784 17,900
January 1977* .. ..
January 1978 157,164 16,885
January 1979 213,589 25,167
January 1980 184,626 19,147
* Not available.
Note: There were minor changes in the boundaries of some regions in April 1974 and for this reason the figures for January 1974 and earlier dates ate not strictly comparable with those for later dates

Registered Unemployed
South East East Anglia South West West Midlands East Midlands Yorkshire and Humberside North West North Wales Scotland Great Britain
January 1967 … … … 133,151 14,102 3',752 38,664 23,676 37,066 66,361 50,421 40,854 84,303 527,350
January 1968 … … … 146,366 13,633 38,449 48,922 27,524 51,933 77,563 61,069 42,069 92,123 600,387
January 1969 … … … 135,880 13,591 38,004 42,705 28,996 55,601 73,848 67,546 41,406 86,436 584,013
January 1971 … … … 144,729 18, 05£ 44,793 52,894 35,713 64,901 91,760 66,833 42,104 113,037 647,815
January 1972 … … … 186,905 23,270 56,307 87,198 48,004 90,967 140,371 89,552 55,296 149,750 926,615
January 1973 … … … 150,652 16,588 44,946 66,946 129,700 72,721 129,700 76,445 45,772 127,523 769,429
January 1974 … … … 11',793 12,891 41,904 47,960 32,893 55,516 95,232 59,330 38,056 95,116 597,691
January* … … … … 154,400 19,000 60,000 61,300 41,'00 65,900 118,400 67,900 47,400 102,300 738,000
January 1976 … … … 296,342 33,446 100,899 129,599 71,553 109,314 189,319 94,083 77,199 150,072 1,251,826
January 1977 … … … 342,764 36,916 113,119 129,130 76,270 115,126 202,963 107,140 83,273 183,418 1,390,218
January 1978 … … … 348,917 38,312 119,161 130,844 82,224 127,646 217,317 123,525 93,112 203,629 1,484,687
January 1979 … … … 305,373 36,235 106,336 126,001 78,521 125,478 208,842 121,647 92,300 190,300 1,391,220
January 1980 … … … 294,309 34,056 99,869 133,287 79,713 127,733 215,530 125,796 90,864 203,232 1,404,389
* Estimated

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