§ 31. Mr. Bowen Wellsasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will take measures to encourage inward investment to counteract balance of trade deficits particularly with Europe and Japan.
314Warea, what is the total number of (a) persons under 25 years and (b) persons under 19 years unemployed at the latest available date; what proportion such unemployed persons form of the total for their age group; how many such unemployed persons have been registered unemployed for (i) more than six months and (ii) more than 12 months; and, in each case, what are the comparable figures for June 1980 and June 1979.
§ Mr. Peter Morrison[pursuant to his reply, 15 July 1981]: The numbers unemployed are analysed by age and by duration of unemployment quarterly and the latest available figures are for April. The following table gives for the age ranges and lengths of time specified the numbers registered as unemployed in the Blackburn travel-to-work area at April each year from 1979. Percentage rates of unemployment by age are not available below national level.
Aged Number unemployed of whom unemployed for over 26 and up to 52 weeks of whom unemployed for over 52 weeks April 1979 under 19 years 395 58 26 19 to 24 years 866 169 87 April 1980 Under 19 years 478 31 7 19 to 24 years 1,072 160 83 April 1981 Under 19 years 732 145 8 19 to 24 years 2,201 678 204