§ Mr. Skinnerasked the Secretary of State for Employment what percentage of redundancies in Derbyshire during the last 12 months has been from the manufacturing sector.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThere are no comprehensive statistics of redundancies. Of those redundancies reported to the Manpower Services Commission as due to occur in 1981 in Derbyshire, 76.5 per cent. related to manufacturing industries. This figure, which is provisional, may be affected by the coverage of the data which is restricted to those redundancies occurring in groups of 10 or more employees.
§ Mr. Skinnerasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the current rate of unemployment in Derbyshire; and what is the rate of increase over the year compared with the national increase.
§ Mr. AlisonAt January 1982 the provisional rate of unemployment in Derbyshire was 10.5 per cent. Between January 1981 and January 1982 the numbers registered as unemployed in Derbyshire increased by 31.4 per cent. compared with an increase of 26.9 per cent. in the United Kingdom.