§ Mr. Ernie Rossasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what are the total numbers and percentage unemployment rates amongst the ethnic minorities in both Dundee and Tayside.
§ Mr. Alexander FletcherInformation is not available in the precise form requested. On 12 November 1981, the latest date for which information is available, 78 people from ethnic minority groups were registered as
Residents with neither parent born in the United Kingdom Both parents born in the New Commonwealth or Pakistan Others Age Tayside Dundee Tayside Dundee Males Females Males Females Males Females Males Females 0–4 119 120 92 101 71 77 29 39 5–14 103 89 81 77 213 210 87 88 15–24 242 119 151 85 496 360 126 l24 25–34 227 96 158 70 363 382 152 176 35–44 118 77 96 54 326 586 155 288 45–59 59 25 46 16 805 585 397 257 60–64 16 14 16 6 638 354 280 151 65+ 11 7 7 3 326 387 155 196 Total 895 547 647 412 3, 238 2, 941 1, 381 1, 319 Tables on the birthplace of individuals indicate that the great majority of residents of New Commonwealth or Pakistan origin were from the Indian Sub-continent and that the other residents with neither parent born in the United Kingdom originated mainly from the Irish Republic, the Old Commonwealth, the United States of America and the European countries of Germany, Poland and Italy.
Information from the 1981 census, which will become available later this year, will relate only to the individual's country of birth.
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Outturn prices (£1, 000) 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 Total Allocations 11, 056 14, 042 16, 028 17, 451 Total Expenditure 10, 509 12, 921 14, 938 17, 706 Underspend (−)/Overspend (+) −547 −1, 121 −1, 090 +255 unemployed in Dundee. The corresponding figure for Tayside—including Dundee—was 81. In the absence of information on the numbers of ethnic minority group workers in the working population, it is not possible to calculate unemployment percentage rates among ethnic minorities.
§ Mr. Ernie Rossasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the total number of members of the ethnic minorities living in Dundee and Tayside; and if he will provide a breakdown by sex and age groups.
§ Mr. Allan StewartThere is no direct information available concerning the number of members of the ethnic minorities living in Dundee and Tayside. The 1971 census provides the most recent available data in terms of country of birth of a person and his or her parents. At that time, in the areas which now comprise Tayside region and Dundee city district, there were respectively 1, 442 and 1, 059 persons both of whose parents were born in the New Commonwealth or Pakistan. There were also 6, 179 other residents in Tayside—2, 700 in Dundee—with neither parent born in the United Kingdom. The age and sex distributions are: