HC Deb 04 March 1985 vol 74 c382W
18. Mr. Roy Hughes

asked the Secretary of State for Wales how many people are unemployed in (a) Gwent and (b) Wales compared with 1979 as a total and a percentage; and of the total unemployed how many are long-term unemployed.

Mr. Nicholas Edwards

On 10 January 1985 there were 29,602 unemployed claimants in Gwent. A comparable claimant-based figure for 1979 is not available. The figure for registered unemployed in January 1979 was 15,968. For Wales as a whole for the same dates, the figures on a claimant-based claculation were 185,529 and 86,416 respectively, an increase of 114.7 per cent. The latest figures for the long-term unemployed relate to January 1985, when 75,697 had been unemployed in Wales for over one year.

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