§ Miss Wrightasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will set out in tabular form the unemployment figures for men, women and young persons under 18 years for the last eight available quarters for (a) Birmingham and (b) the West Midlands.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonAge analyses of the numbers unemployed are made quarterly in January, April, July and October and the latest available figures are for October 1980. The following table gives for these months in 1979 and 1980, the total numbers of males and females registered as unemployed in the Birmingham travel-to-work area and the West Midlands region. It also gives the numbers of young people under 18 years of age included in these figures which, because they include school leavers, are generally higher in July than in the other months quoted.
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Birmingham travel-to-work areas West Midlands Male Female Aged under 18 Male Female Aged under 18 July 32,294 14,405 9,280 94,310 48,801 31,553 October 30,799 13,288 4,957 87,115 42,908 13,982 1980 January 30,910 12,444 3,419 90,990 42,297 10,191 April 33,436 13,816 3,623 97,400 45,596 11,246 July 42,761 19,792 11,893 128,612 67,408 42,977 October 49,208 21,367 8,712 150,279 71,635 27,673