§ Mr. Campbell-Savoursasked the Secretary of State for Employment what was the total number of persons unemployed, the percentage rate of unemployment, the total number of vacancies and the ratio of vacancies to unemployed for (a) the Workington travel-to-work area, (b) Cumbria and (c) each region of England for the last month for which statistics are available.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe following table gives the total numbers registered as unemployed, the percentage rates of unemployment and numbers of vacancies remaining unfilled at employment offices and at careers offices in the area specified at April 1981. The figures are provisional. The vacancy statistics 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 ratios requested.
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Unfilled Vacancies Number unemployed Percentage rate of unemployment At employment offices At careers offices Yorkshire and Humberside 232,614 11.0 5,399 239 North-West 357,379 12.5 9,745 257 North 188,700 13.6 4,608 114