§ Mr. Knoxasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were in employment in each of the employment areas in the Leek parliamentary constituency on the most recent date for which figures are available; and how this compares with the figure in 1973.
§ Mr. AlisonThe most recent figures are from the June 1978 census of employment. Censuses were not taken in 1979 and 1980 and the results of the September 1981 census are not yet available.
The information requested is as follows:
Numbers in employment Employment Office area June 1973 June 1978 Leek 13,148 13,042 Biddulph 3,873 4,017 Cheadle 6,051 5,369 Kidsgrove 12,253 9,067 The figures for 1973 and 1978 are for slightly different areas. In 1978 postcodes were used for the first time to allocate figures to employment office areas. Resulting changes were mainly small but some 2,500 employees previously counted in Kidsgrove were included in an employment office area outside the constituency.