§ Mr. John Spellarasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the breakdown by standard industrial classification of unemployment for the Birmingham travel-to-work area for May 1979 and to date.
§ Mr. AlisonThe following table gives for May 1979 and May 1982, the last date for which an industrial analysis was made, the numbers of people registered as unemployed—the old basis of the count—in the Birmingham travel-to-work area analysed by orders of the 1968 standard industrial classification. The information relates to the industries in which the unemployed persons last worked.
Standard Industrial Classification, 1968 May 1979 May 1982 Agriculture, forestry, fishing 113 324 Mining and quarrying 89 188 Food, drink and tobacco 964 2,549 Coal and petroleum products 18 44 Chemicals and allied industries 338 1,027 Metal manufacture 1,012 3,264 Mechanical engineering 916 3,360 Instrument engineering 104 223 Electrical engineering 832 3,072 Shipbuilding and marine engineering 26 42 Vehicles 2,521 11,717 Metal goods not elsewhere specified 5,269 14,958 Textiles 196 369 Leather, leather goods and fur 38 71 Clothing and footwear 227 579 Bricks, pottery, glass, cement, etc. 196 604 Timber, furniture, etc. 231 596 Paper, printing and publishing 325 966 Other manufacturing industries 730 2,599 Construction 4,130 11,292 Gas, electricity and water 223 535 Transport and communication 1,161 2,945 Distributive trades 3,456 9,603 Insurance, banking, finance and business services 780 2,154 Professional and scientific services 1,405 3,704 Miscellaneous services 3,319 9,677 Public administration and defence 1,318 3,197 Not classified by industry (including school leavers) 10,900 23,854 Total 40,027 113,513
§ Mr. John Spellarasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the unemployment figures at the Northfield jobcentre in May 1979 and to date.
§ Mr. AlisonAt May 1979, the number of people registered as unemployed—the old basis of the count—in the Northfield jobcentre area was 2,701. The number of unemployed claimants—the new basis of the count—in the area at January 1983 was 10,079. The figures on both the old and new bases at October 1982 were 10,145 and 9,813, respectively.