§ Mr. Leeasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will set out the latest unemployment figures in the North-West of England of areas that (a) lost their intermediate area status as from 1982 in the last major review and (b) retained that intermediate area status.
§ Mr. Jim LesterThe following table gives the provisional numbers registered as unemployed at 9 October in the areas specified.
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Employment office areas which are due to lose their intermediate area status from 1 August 1982 Numbers unemployed Accrington 2,324 Altrincham 2,842 Ashton-under-Lyne 2,990 Atherton and Tyldesley 1,447 Bacup 920 Bamber Bridge 791 Barnoldswick 481 Beswick 2,406 Blackburn 5,716 Bolton 8,091 Burnley 3,422 Bury 3,025 Chester 4,880 Chorley 2,290 Clitheroe 480 Calne 797 Congleton 710 Crewe 2,356 Darwen 1,109 Denton 941 Didsbury 3,227 Droylsden 481 Eccles 1,763 Failsworth 1,353 Farnworth 1,922 Glossop 1,051 Great Harwood 388 Haslingden 434 Heywood 1,521 Horwich 590 Hyde 2,428 Irlam 728 Leigh 3,157 Longsight 3,194 Leyland 1,294 Littleborough 442 Macclesfield 1,886 Manchester 7,687 Marple 450 Middleton 3,488 Middlewich 313 Mossley 365 Moss Side 4,984 Nantwich 439 Nelson 1,515 Newton Heath 3,234 Newton-le-Willows 1,210 Northwich 1,549 Oldham and Chadderton 6,768
Ormskirk 1,210 Padiham 491 Preston 8,606 Prestwich 1,795 Radcliffe 1,036 Rawtenstall 841 Rochdale 5,543 Royton 648 Salford 5,239 Sandbach 657 Skelmersdale 3,413 Stalybridge 880 Stockport 7,397 Stretford 4,576 Swinton 1,608 Warrington 6,367 Westhoughton 625 Winsford 1,537 Wilmslow 958 Worsley 1,820 Wythenshawe 4,413
Employment office areas which are due to retain their intermediate area status after 1 August 1982 Number unemployed Blackpool 4,674 Fleetwood 1,474 Kirkham 336 Lancaster 2,555 Lytham 185 Morecambe 1,730 Southport 3,811 St. Annes 555 Thornton Cleveleys 1,312