§ Ms Harmanasked the Secretary of State for Employment how the number of construction workers employed in (a) Southwark, Peckham and (b) the United Kingdom as a whole compares with the corresponding figures for each of the previous 10 years.
§ Mr. AlisonThe following table gives the number of people registered as unemployed—the old basis of the count—who last worked in the construction industry in the Camberwell jobcentre area—which corresponds closely to Southwark, Peckham—and in the United Kingdom in each of the 10 years to May 1982, the last date for which information is available.
Camberwell jobcentre area United Kingdom June 1973 208 90,989 June 1974 209 100,479 June 1975 480 159,600 June 1976 753 212,071 May 1977 783 218,523 May 1978 823 201,290 May 1979 666 174,656 May 1980 715 204,574 May 1981 1,165 381,285 May 1982 1,517 389,236