HC Deb 06 July 1981 vol 8 cc37-8W
Mr. Ralph Howell

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what studies have been made or commissioned by his Department of changing travel-to-work costs and distances since 1945, and of the impact of such changes on unemployment, especially youth unemployment.

Mr. Peter Morrison

The fourth advisory report of the Pay Board, published in July 1974, which examined London weighting, of which travel to work costs are a part, was commissioned by the then Secretary of State for Employment. My Department is shortly to publish a relevant research paper entitled "Mobility Within Local Labour Markets".