§ Sir Hector Monroasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will break down the travel-to-work unemployment figures for the Dumfries area into separate areas for Dumfries, Annan and Lockerbie; and if he will give the figures, and percentages, for each area for June.
§ Mr. YoungerOn 10 June 1982, 3,026 people were registered as unemployed at Dumfries, 1,326 at Annan and 363 at Lockerbie, and the percentage rate for the Dumfries/Annan/Lockerbie travel-to-work area was 13.3 per cent. Meaningful unemployment percentage rates can only be calculated for employment office areas, or groups of employment office areas, which form reasonably self-contained labour markets. Because of travel-to-work flows between Dumfries, Annan and Lockerbie, the three employment office areas are treated as a single labour market and unemployment percentage rates for the individual employment office areas are not available.