§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment what was the total number of jobs supported by the temporary short-time working compensation scheme for (a) the Wolverhampton area and (b) the West Midlands for the last month for which statistics are available, and the percentage of the total insured working population in each area each figure represents; and if he will give the same figures for the same month in 1979 and 1980.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe following tables show the figures requested:
March 1981 A B Area Number of jobs stated as being at risk in original application Column A as a percentage of all employees (employed and unemployed)* Wolverhampton 5,222 3.6 West Midlands 140,537 6.0
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August 1979† A B Area Number of jobs stated as being at risk in original application Column A as a percentage of all employees (employed and unemployed)* Wolverhampton 107 0.1 West Midlands 3,655 0.2
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe following table gives, for April 1981, the numbers registered as unemployed, the percentage rates of unemployment and the numbers of vacancies remaining unfilled in the Wolverhampton travel-to-work area and the West Midlands region. The figures are provisional. The vacancy figures 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. 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.
March 1980 A B Area Number of jobs stated as being at risk in original application Column A as a percentage of all employees (employed and unemployed)* Wolverhampton 460 0.3 West Midlands 10.815 0.5 *Does not include members of HM Forces or the self-employed. †Temporary Short Time Working Compensation scheme figures are not available for March 1979 as the scheme was not established until 2 April 1979 and statistics were not broken down below Regional level until August 1979.
§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people are registered disabled in the West Midlands area; if he will break these figures down into the areas covered by the various local jobcentres; and what percentage of the total unemployed for the area the figures represent.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonAt 12 March 1981, the latest date for which information can be broken down into the areas covered by local jobcentres and employment offices, there were 7,762 unemployed registered disabled people in the MSC employment service division's West Midlands area. The figures for the individual jobcentres and employment offices are as follows:
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Jobcentre/Employment Office and unemployed registered disabled people Aldridge 12 Aston 247 Bedworth 91 Biddulph 37 Bilston 133 Birmingham 158 Bridgnorth 28 Bromsgrove 29 Brownhills 71 Burslem 126 Burton on Trent 102 Cannock 211 Cheadle 24 Chelmsley Wood 154 Coventry 508 Cradley Heath 101
Droitwich 37 Dudley 258 Erdington 78 Evesham 30 Halesowen 44 Handsworth 134 Hanley 152 Hereford 180 Kidderminster 126 Kidsgrove 60 Kingswinford 19 Leamington 124 Ledbury 16 Leek 43 Leominster 46 Lichfield 68 Longton 136 Ludlow 47 Madeley 87 Malvern 64 Market Drayton 36 Newcastle 140 Northfield 196 Nuneaton 168 Oakengates 140 Oldbury 52 Oswestry 89 Pershore 33 Redditch 96 Ross on Wye 25 Rugby 95 Rugeley 38 Selly Oak 255 Shrewsbury 106 Small Heath 103 Smethwick 87 Solihull 34 Sparkhill 179 Stafford 60 Stoke 74 Stone 13 Stourbridge 87 Stourport 15 Stratford 29 Sutton Coldfield 98 Tamworth 168 Tipton 94 Uttoxeter 20 Walsall 265 Washwood Heath 260 Wednesbury 90 Wednesfield 44 Wellington 40 West Bromwich 134 Whitchurch 19 Willenhall 62 Worcester 237 Wolverhampton 300 The 7,762 unemployed registered disabled people represent 2.8 per cent. of the total unemployed in the West Midlands area.