§ Mr. Kaufmanasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the latest number of unemployed in the transportatation industry (a) in absolute figures (b) as a percentage of those employed in the construction industry and (c) as a percentage of the total number of unemployed persons in the United Kingdom; and if he will give all the above items of information for each of the past 10 years at a comparable time.
§ Mr. Jim Lester[pursuant to his reply, 11 June 1980, c. 234–5]: I have obtained the information set out below.
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UNITED KINGDOM (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) Numbers registered as unemployed who last worked in transport and communication (Order XXII of the Standard Industrial Classification 1968) Numbers of employees (employed and unemployed) in transport and communication (1) as a percentage of(2) (1) as a percentage of all unemployed (excluding school leavers) at May each year Numbers registered as unemployed who last worked in construction (Order XX of the Standard Industrial Classification 1968) Numbers of employees (employed and unemployed) in construction (5) as a percentage of(6) (5) as a percentage of all unemployed (excluding school leavers) at May each year May each year Mid-year estimates May each year Mid-year estimates 1970 36,331 1,625,340 2.2 6.2 111,679 1,471,098 7.6 19.2 1971 44,005 1,610,240 2.7 5.9 123,473 1,407,605 8.8 16.6 1972 51,863 1,590,797 3.3 6.0 143,930 1,420,292 10.1 16.7 1973 41,734 1,562,397 2.7 6.8 98,441 1,453,189 6.8 15.9 1974 33,820 1,538,115 2.2 6.1 103,567 1,422,979 7.3 18.6 1975 46,292 1,564,455 3.0 5.5 158,181 1,470,000 10.8 19.0 1976 62,337 1,534,846 4.1 5.1 218,914 1,519,971 14.4 17.7 1977 61,488 1,529,430 4.0 4.7 218,523 1,484,723 14.7 16.9 1978 60,218 1,526,418 3.9 4.5 201,290 1,460,790 13.8 15.0 1979 56,108 1,537,908 3.6 4.5 174,656 1,454,256 12.0 13.9 1980 65,354 1,537,908 4.2 4.5 204,574 1,454,256 14.1 14.0 Notes
1 From October 1979 unemployment figures are affected by the introduction of fortnightly attendance and payment of benefit.
2 The employees figures for 1978, 1979 and 1980 are provisional.
3 The provisional estimates for mid-1979, the latest available, have been used to calculate the percentages in columns (3) and (7) for 1979 and 1980.
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