HC Deb 27 January 1982 vol 16 c360W
Mr. Arthur Lewis

asked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will give for the latest and most convenient stated date the number of unemployed hotel and catering workers in London and nationally.

Mr. Peter Morrison

At August 1981, the latest date for which an industrial analysis is available, the numbers of people registered as unemployed who last worked in the hotel and catering industries—minimum list headings 884 to 888 of the Standard Industrial Classification—were 16, 321 in Greater London and 116, 464 in Great Britain.