HC Deb 03 March 1982 vol 19 cc177-8W
Mr. William Hamilton

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many persons registered in Scotland for employment as doctors, nurses and teachers, respectively, were unemployed in May in each of the last five years.

Mr. Alexander Fletcher

Information is not available in the precise form requested. The following table gives the numbers of unemployed people in Scotland registered for employment in the specified occupations in June—the nearest month to May for which information is available—in each of the past five years.

Numbers Registered in Scotland for Employment
June of each year
1977 1978 1979 1980 1981
Medical practitioners 17 25 35 28 48
June of each year
1977 1978 1979 1980 1981
State registered and State enrolled nurses and State certified midwives 570 632 564 606 806
Teachers (primary and secondary) 723 723 962 971 1,612