§ Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the most recent figures for the level of unemployment in each travel-to-work area in Essex, Hertfordshire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, West Yorkshire, and Tyne and Wear.
§ Mr. GummerThe following table gives, for 9 June, the numbers of unemployed claimants and the percentage rates of unemployment in the travel-to-work areas which are either wholly or mainly within the boundaries of the counties specified.
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Number Percentage rate Essex *Braintree 3,676 10.4 *Chelmsford 4,602 6.6 Clacton-on-Sea 2,858 15.8 Colchester 6,521 11.0 *Harlow (includes Bishops Stortford, Herts) 6,555 9.0
Number Percentage rate Harwich 774 8.5 Southend-on-Sea 28,783 14.7 Hertfordshire *Hertford 2,406 5.7 *Hitchin 4,366 8.0 *St. Albans 5,798 6.5 Stevenage 4,174 10.9 *Watford 8,535 6.9 Greater Manchester *Ashton-under-Lyne (includes Glossop, Derbyshire) 14,746 15.5 *Bolton 16,500 15.0 *Bury 8,995 13.6 *Leigh 6,805 15.2 *Manchester (includes Wilmslow, Cheshire) 92,780 12.9 *Oldham 12,657 13.7 Rochdale 8,632 17.5 *Wigan (includes Ashton-in-Makerfield, Merseyside) 13,399 18.4 Merseyside *Birkenhead (includes Ellesmere Port and Neston, Cheshire) 29,632 18.5 *Liverpool 88,321 18.5 Southport 5,490 16.2 St. Helens 11,096 16.4 West Yorkshire *Bradford 25,522 15.0 *Castleford 7,957 12.3 *Dewsbury 9,463 14.2 *Halifax 9,214 12.1 Huddersfield 10,798 12.1 Keighley 3,828 13.3 *Leeds 40,186 11.8 Todmorden 1,489 15.2 *Wakefield 7,637 10.3 Tyne and Wear *North Tyne 36,862 13.6 *South Tyne (includes Chester-le-Street, Durham and Prudhoe, Northumberland) 33,295 18.5 *Wearside (includes Seaham, Durham) 27,972 20.1 * Travel-to-work area comprising two or more jobcentre areas.
§ Sir Ian Gilmourasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will produce monthly or quarterly figures on a consistent basis for adults wholly unemployed, excluding school leavers, seasonally adjusted from 1977 onwards; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. GummerA series of monthly seasonally adjusted unemployment figures, excluding school leavers, from mid 1978, with the recent Budget effects clearly indicated, can be found in table 2.1 of the June 1983 issue ofEmployment Gazette, a copy of which is available in the Library. A longer series, back to January 1971, is published in the corresponding table of the January 1983 issue.
§ Mr. Strangasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were unemployed, expressed (a) numerically and (b) as a percentage in the 100W United Kingdom in April and May 1983, respectively; and what were the corresponding figures for males and females.
§ Mr. GummerThe figures were published in table 2.1 of the labour market data section of the June issue ofEmployment Gazette, a copy of which is in the Library.