§ Mr. Spriggsasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will reconsider the manner in which unemployment statistics are published in order to show the number of unemployed men, women and school leavers in each parliamentary constituency and to indicate how many people have been unemployed for one, two, three or four years, respectively; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. GummerThe possibility of supplementing the current analyses of unemployment by compiling figures for parliamentary constituencies is under investigation. Analyses by duration for periods exceeding one, two and three years is already available; and a further distinction at four years will be available for April and subsequently.