HC Deb 26 January 1982 vol 16 cc331-2W
Mr. Canavan

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many registered unemployed people there are in the United Kingdom; and what is his estimate of the number of non-registered unemployed.

Mr. Peter Morrison

At 14 January the provisional number of people registered as unemployed in the United Kingdom was 3, 070, 621.

I have nothing to add to the answer about estimates of the non-registered unemployed which I gave to the hon. Member on 15 December 1981.—[Vol. 15, c. 79.]

Mr. Robert C. Brown

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the present number of construction workers unemployed in (a) Newcastle upon Tyne and (b) Tyne and Wear county; and what percentage of such workers this represents.

Mr. Peter Morrison

I shall reply to the hon. Member as soon as possible.

Mr. Robert C. Brown

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many (a) boys and (b) girls who left school in the summer of 1981 are still without work in (i) the city of Newcastle upon Tyne and (ii) the county of Tyne and Wear.

Mr. Peter Morrison

The statistics of unemployed school leavers do not separately distinguish those who left school last summer.