HC Deb 22 March 1985 vol 75 cc627-8W
Mr. Fatchett

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list for each West Yorkshire travel-to-work area (a) the total number of registered unemployed in January 1985, (b) the percentage of the population that represents, (c) the increase (a) and (b) represent over December 1984, (d) the number of unfilled vacancies at jobcentres in January 1985, (e) the comparative figures for January 1983 and (f) the comparative figures for January 1981.

Mr. Alan Clark

The available information, which is also in the Library, is as follows:

Travel-to-work area January 1985 Percentage increase since December 1984
Total unemployed claimants Percentage rate*
Bradford 32,003 15.9 3.7
Calderdale 10,398 13.3 4.5
Castleford and Pontefract 8,357 14.4 2.3
Huddersfield 11,423 13.8 3.9
Keighley 4,055 13.5 2.8
Leeds 42,742 13.1 4.6
Wakefield and Dewsbury 16,803 14.7 5.6
* Unemployed as a percentage of the sum of employed and unemployed, at June 1984.

Unfilled vacancies at jobcentres—West Yorkshire
January 1985 January 1983 January 1981
Batley 46 45 22
Bingley 62 39 17
Bradford 710 674 281
Bramley 81 131 64
Brighouse 70 37 32
Castleford 66 64 97
Crossgates 52 46 *
Dewsbury 180 113 71
Elland 28 17 15
Halifax 230 165 96
Hemsworth 10 11 7
Horsforth 52 59 33
Huddersfield 251 164 137
Hunslet 77 105 37
Keighley 116 93 79
Knottingly 27 23 11
Leeds 798 824 447
Morley 103 103 37
Normanton 27 22 15
Otley 75 63 44
Pontefract 65 65 41
Rothwell 29 41 3
Seacroft 20 41 24
Shipley 144 65 25
South Elmsall 6 21 9
Sowerbybridge 10 19 13
Spen Valley 48 48 35
Todmorden 41 25 7

January 1985 January 1983 January 1981
Wakefield 241 244 126
Wetherby 43 74 67
Yeadon 74 74 37
* Crossgates jobcentre opened on 2 February 1981.