§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people are unemployed and how many job vacancies there are in each occupational group in (a) the West Midlands and (b) Wolverhampton at the latest available date; and what were the comparable figures for May 1979.
§ Mr. AlisonThe information is available quarterly for March, June, September and December. The latest figures, which are for December 1981, were given to the hon. Member in my reply to her question on 21 January 1982.—[Vol. 16, c. 175–78.]
The following table gives the information for June 1979. The unemployment figures relate to unemployed people registered at employment offices for employment in the occupations listed; figures for careers offices are not analysed by occupation.
Vacancy figures relate only to those notified to employment offices and are estimated to be about one-third of all vacancies in the economy as a whole.