HC Deb 23 December 1982 vol 34 cc636-7W
Mr. Richard Wainwright

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people are currently registered as unemployed in each county council and metropolitan county council area in England; and what has been the percentage increase in unemployment since May 1979 in the same areas.

Mr. Alison

The following table gives the numbers of unemployed claimants—the current basis of the count—at November 1982 in the areas specified. It also gives the percentage increases in the numbers registered as unemployed—old basis—between May 1979 and October 1982 and the percentage changes in the numbers of unemployed claimants between October 1982 and November 1982. The figures include school leavers and are not seasonally adjusted.

Unemployed Claimants Percentage changes
County Registration Claimants
November 1982 May 1979-October 1982 October 1982-November 1982
Hampshire 55,331 +174.9 +0.2
Hertfordshire 31,628 +260.5 +0.8
Isle of Wight 6,244 +187.2 +6.6
Kent 63,501 +173.8 +1.7
Oxfordshire 17,115 +131.4 +0.8
Surrey 21,643 +234.0 +0.7
West Sussex 18,278 +203.2 +2.0
Cambridgeshire 21,932 +168.8 +1.6
Norfolk 32,473 +138.5 +3.1
Suffolk 22,858 +163.9 +1.3
Avon 43,486 +115.2 +1.2
Cornwall 23,670 +90.9 +5.6
Devon 46,760 +104.5 +2.3
Dorset 23,284 +159.3 +3.4
Gloucestershire 19,493 +163.7 +1.0
Somerset 14,313 +138.2 +0.6
Wiltshire 19,953 +135.4 -0.1
Hereford and Worcester 30,815 +198.8 +0.7
Shropshire 20,617 +183.5 +1.1
Staffordshire 52,582 +236.1 -1.0
Warwickshire 20,046 +208.0 -0.8
West Midlands 228,922 +229.1 -0.1
Derbyshire 45,591 +213.5 +1.1
Leicestershire 37,849 +188.0 -0.7
Lincolnshire 24,431 +108.1 +2.5
Northamptonshire 25,305 +259.1 +0.3
Nottinghamshire 51,222 +146.1 +0.9
Humberside 54,953 +136.3 +1.5
North Yorkshire 21,874 +136.1 +2.4
South Yorkshire 91,797 +178.0 +0.6
West Yorkshire 120,304 +185.5 +0.2
Cheshire 49,385 +184.0 +0.5
Greater Manchester 169,466 +199.1 -0.8
Lancashire 73,917 +166.3 +2.8
Merseyside 133,459 +82.0 -0.2
Cleveland 53,124 +123.2 +0.4
Cumbria 23,374 +136.2 +1.6
Durham 40,211 +139.7 +0.3
Northumberland 14,455 +126.6 -0.1
Tyne and Wear 93,317 +93.4 -0.2

Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how the latest unemployment figures for the Tiverton and Cullompton travel-to-work area compare with the average English figures for the same period in (a) intermediate areas and (b) development areas.

Mr. Alison

At 11 November, the rate of unemployment in the Tiverton jobcentre area, which includes Cullompton, was 13.3 per cent. The corresponding rates for intermediate areas, special development areas and other development areas for England as a whole were 16, 17.6 and 17.3 per cent., respectively.

Mr. Beith

asked the Secretary of State for Employment why the new form of unemployment figures has led to an increase of 2.4 percentage points in the figures for the Alnwick travel-to-work area in October as given in his answer on Friday 17 December, Official Report, c. 265–70.

Mr. Alison

I shall write to the hon. Member.

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