§ Mr. Parryasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list in the Official Report (a) the number and (b) the percentage of unemployed youth in the special development areas at the latest date and the comparative figures for June 1979.
§ Mr. Alan Clark[pursuant to his reply, 7 March 1984, c. 359]: The following table gives the numbers of registered unemployed aged under 18 years in July 1979 and the number of unemployed claimants in January 1984 for travel-to-work areas or jobcentre areas which comprise special development areas. The figures are not seasonally adjusted; in particular the figures for July 1979 are seasonally high due to new school leavers registering as unemployed and the January 1984 figures for Scotland will include Christmas school leavers. As indicated in my reply to the hon. Member on 6 March 1984, at column 539, to the related questions on Merseyside and Liverpool, percentage rates of unemployed by age are not available below national level owing to the absence of employment estimates by age. Information for October 1982 on both the registration and claimant bases included in my previous reply could be provided for special development areas only at disproportionate cost.
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Unemployed aged under 18 in travel-to-work areas and jobcentre areas in special development areas Registered unemployed July 1979 Unemployed claimants January 1984 South West Redruth 310 203 Falmouth 132 130 North West Birkenhead 3,714 1,766 Liverpool 10,375 5,307 Widnes 1,316 842 Skelmersdale* 468 335 North Consett 702 509 North Tyne 4,012 2,361 Peterlee 1,071 358 South Tyne 4,262 2,112 Teesside 4,740 2,733 Wearside 3,287 1,777 Hartlepool 1,153 568 Wales Bargoed 526 383 Ebbw Vale 716 381 Holyhead 327 227 Port Talbot 1,286 766 Shotton 1,166 507 Wrexham 889 530 Ferndale* †— 139 Tonypandy* 788 185 Treorchy* †— 101 Scotland Ayr 728 748 Dumbraton 503 580 Glasgow 9,940 9,087 Greenock 1,199 880 Irvine 1,322 941 Lanark 530 275 North Lanarkshire 3,816 3,592 Paisley 1,433 1,379 Arbroath 269 213 Cummock 306 330 Dundee 1,308 1,419 Kilmarnock 529 535 Glenrothes* 315 280 Livingston* 430 486 Sanguhar* †l 58 Notes:
* Jobcentre areas not forming complete travel-to-work areas.
‡ The figures of registered unemployment for young people exclude those registering at careers offices outside the area.