§ Mr. Arnoldasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will estimate the number of persons of working age not in full-time education who are unemployed and (a) seeking work and (b) not seeking work; and how many of them receive unemployment benefit.
§ Mr. AlisonPreliminary estimates from the 1981 European Community labour force survey show that in 133W Great Britain in the second quarter of 1981 2.3 million persons of working age who were not in full-time education were out of employment and seeking work. A further 6 million such persons, the majority of whom were housewives, were neither in employment nor seeking work. Of these 8.3 million, the survey showed 1.8 million persons to be receiving unemployment benefit or supplementary benefits associated with being registered as unemployed.
Numbers Percentage rate June 1979 June 1982 June 1979 June 1982 Accrington travel-to-work area 1,250 4,793 4.2 16.3 North East Lancashire 10,096 30,272 4.8 14.1 United Kingdom 1,343,865 3,061,229 5.5 12.8
§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many persons have been registered as unemployed for more than (a) 52 weeks and (b) two years for each of the counties of England for each month since January 1979.
§ Mr. Alison[pursuant to his reply, 29 June 1982, c. 281]: I am writing to the hon. Member sending him information for each quarter month from January 1979. A copy of the tables is also being deposited in the House of Commons Library.
§ Mr. Winnickasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the number of the unemployed aged under 21 years in the United Kingdom, the West Midlands area and the Walsall travel-to-work area; what were the figures for May 1979, July 1980 and July 1981; and what was the change in percentage terms for each of the years.
§ Mr. Peter Morrison[pursuant to his reply, 5 July 1982, c. 12]: The numbers registered as unemployed are analysed by age in January, April, July and October. The following table gives the information for the age range nearest to that specified and for comparable dates.
Unemployed aged under 20 years Number Percentage change United Kingdom July 1979 411,153 +35.6 July 1980 557,333 +14.6 July 1981 638,644 April 1981 408,697 +24.6 April 1982 509,313 West Midlands July 1979 46,089 +36.3 July 1980 62,813 +11.9 July 1981 70,269 April 1981 45,164 +22.3 April 1982 55,230 Walsall travel-to-work area July 1979 4,051 +50.6 July 1980 6,100 +3.1 July 1981 6,290 April 1981 4,128 +15.1 April 1982 4,751 Note: The July figures include summer school leavers not present in the April figures.
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§ Mr. Arthur Davidsonasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the monthly and percentage unemployment figures since June 1979 for (a) Accrington, (b) North East Lancashire and (c) on a national basis.
§ Mr. AlisonThe following table gives the numbers registered as unemployed and the percentage rates of unemployment in the areas specified at June 1979 and June 1982.