§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment what was the total number of jobs being supported by the temporary short-time working compensation scheme for (a) Wolverhampton and (b) the West Midlands during the last month for which figures are available and the percentage of the total insured working population in both areas each figure represents; and if he will give the same figures for May 1979 and January 1980.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe following tables show the figures requested:
January 1981 Area Wolverhampton West Midlands Number of jobs being supported 2,962 108,127 Number of jobs supported as a percentage of all employees (employed and unemployed)* 2.0 4.6 108W
Area Wolverhampton West Midland August 1979† Number of jobs being supported 107 3,655 Number of jobs supported as a percentage of all employees (employed and unemployed)* 0.1 0.2 January 1980 Number of jobs being supported 278 8,175
Area Wolverhampton West Midland Number of jobs supported as a percentage of all employed and unemployed)* 0.2 0.4 * Does not include numbers of Her Majesty's Forces or the self-employed. † Temporary short-time working compensation scheme figures are not available for May 1979 as statistics were not broken down below regional level until August 1979.