§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Wales whether he will publish a table in the Official Report showing the number of manufacturing jobs in Wales each year since 1960 broken down by industrial groups, together with the latest available figure.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsFigures for the years 1960–64 are not available. Employment statistics by industry for the period 1965–75 are published in theEmployment Gazette —August 1976—and for 1971–77 in "Welsh Economic Trends", No. 7, 1980. The number of manufacturing jobs in Wales since 1978 is given in the following table:
percentage of those registered unemployed who have been unemployed for more than two years for each county of Wales for each month since January 1979.
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§ Mr. Wyn RobertsInformation is available on a quarterly basis only—as follows:
Those unemployed for over two years as a percentage of total unemployed South Glamorgan Mid Glamorgan West Glamorgan Gwent Dyfed Powys Gwynedd Clwyd April 1979 11.7 13.4 9.6 15.1 12.3 13.5 16.0 16.5 July 1979 11.4 11.6 8.6 14.5 12.3 14.0 16.7 15.0 October 1979 12.7 13.9 10.5 14.0 11.6 16.4 14.0 15.8 January 1980 13.2 12.9 10.2 13.2 10.5 11.8 13.7 15.2 April 1980 13.8 11.9 10.0 12.4 10.5 11.7 14.2 11.4 July 1980 12.8 9.7 8.2 10.4 9.2 9.5 13.1 9.6 October 1980 12.3 9.4 7.4 11.0 8.5 9.1 11.6 10.0 January 1981 11.2 9.1 7.2 10.2 7.6 7.9 9.6 8.7 April 1981 11.3 9.6 7.8 10.3 8.0 7.9 10.3 8.6 July 1981 10.9 9.9 7.7 10.1 7.7 7.4 10.9 8.7 October 1981 11.4 10.8 8.9 11.0 8.2 8.2 10.9 9.4 January 1982 12.6 11.6 9.8 12.1 8.6 7.0 9.8 9.7 April 1982 13.7 13.4 11.6 13.3 9.3 6.6 11.1 13.7