§ Mr. Skinnerasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many persons were made redundant in Derbyshire in 1983 and 1984.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe available information, relating to confirmed redundancies, is given in the following table:
Redundancies* confirmed as due to occur in Derbyslare† Redundancies 1983 6,494 1984 7,575 Notes: * Confirmed by the Manpower Services Commission as due to occur and based on notifications of impending redundancies involving ten or more workers. † Groupings of jobcentre areas approximating to the county of Derbyshire.
§ Mr. Skinnerasked the Secretary of State for Employment what was the average number of redundancies in the east midlands between 1977 and 1979 and between 1980 and 1982.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe information, relating to confirmed redundancies, is available from table 2.30 of the labour market data section of theEmployment Gazette, a copy of which is in the Library.
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§ Mr. Peter Bruinvelsasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list all the vacancies recorded at the jobcentres and professional and executive recruitment office in Leicester at the latest date for which the data are available.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonOn 8 February 1985, the latest date for which figures are available, there were 1,221 unfilled vacancies at the Leicester jobcentre and 127 at the professional and executive recruitment office. A full list of these vacancies could not be obtained without disproportionate cost.
However, information is collected on the number of unfilled vacancies held at the jobcentre according to the broad industrial and occupational category to which they belong. Details are as follows for the latest available dates. This information is not available for the vacancies held at the professional and executive recruitment office.
Vacancies Recorded by Industrial Group (8 February 1985) Industrial Croup Number of Vacancies Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing 1 Coal Extraction 0 Mineral Oil & Natural Gas Extraction 0 Mineral Oil Processing 0 Nuclear Fuel Production 0 Gas, Electricity & Water 6 Extraction of Other Minerals & Ores 0 Metal Manufacture 0 Mnfr. Of Non-metallic Products 2 Chemical Industry 8 Production of Man-Made Fibres 0 Mnfr. Of Metal Goods 9 Mechanical Engineering 48 Mnfr. Of Office Machinery 3 Electrical & Electronic Engineering 15 Mnfr. Of Motor Vehicles 1 Ship Building & Repairing 0 Mnfr. Of Aerospace & Other Transport 2 Instrument Engineering 9 Food, Drink & Tobacco 9 Textiles 285 Leather. Footwear & Clothing 77 Timber & Furniture 14 Paper, Printing & Publishing 18 Other Manufacturing 12 Construction 54 Wholesale Distribution 35 Retail Distribution 127 Hotel & Catering 67 Repair Consumer Goods & Vehicles 17 Transport 25 Telecommunication 1 Insurance Banking, Finance 68 Public Administration & Defence 135 Medical & Other Health Services 34 Other Services 29 Community Programme (Total) 110 Total 1,221 286W
Table 1—Civilian Employed Labour Force Thousands June each year 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 South East 7,819 7,926 8,105 8,164 7,963 7,866 7,817 8,023 East Anglia 747 762 791 796 768 76 773 797
Vacancies Recorded by Occupational Group (30 November) Occupational group Number of Vacancies Managerial, professional 34 Nursing 6 Typing, secretarial 42 Clerical 101 Selling-distribution 77 Selling-others 85 Security 7 Catering 82 Cleaning, personal services 92 Farming, Fishing 9 Materials processing—textiles 25 Materials processing—food 2 Metal processing 1 Material processing—others 0 Making, repairing—textiles 331 Making, repairing—others 39 Machine operating (Eng)—skilled 25 Machine operating (Eng)—unskilled 1 Tool Makers/fitters 3 Installation, Maintenance 33 Electricians 17 Electronic technicians 6 Welders/fabricators 12 Painters 5 Assemblers, packaging 38 Construction—skilled 6 Construction—unskilled 3 Mining, quarrying 0 Transport operating—HGV, PSV 2 Transport operating—others 22 Miscellaneous 29 Community Programme (Total) 72 Total 1,207 Programme vacancies are not analysed according to occupational and industrial categories.
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give a breakdown by region of the number of people in employment, whole-time equivalent, in each of the years since 1977; and what percentage this figure represents of total work force in the region in each of those years.
§ Mr. Alan Clark[pursuant to his reply, 26 March 1985]: The following tables give the available information.
Table 1 gives, for the regions and dates specified, the civilian employed labour force (employees in employment plus the self-employed). Her Majesty's Forces, which are normally included in the employed labour force figures, are not analysed regionally.
Table 2 gives the figures in table 1 expressed as a percentage of the civilian working population (civilian employed labour force plus the unemployed).
Figures for part-time workers are included on a one-to-one basis and are not converted to whole-time equivalents as detailed information on the hours worked by part-lime employees is not available.
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June each year 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 South West 1,702 1,719 1,751 1,790 1,769 1,744 1,722 1,765 West Midlands 2,362 2,360 2,364 2,357 2,220 2,150 2,104 2,125 East Midlands 1,658 1,682 1,710 1,691 1,612 1,596 1,568 1,572 Yorkshire and Humberside 2,146 2,133 2,140 2,121 2,016 1,972 1,935 1,952 North West 2,836 2,852 2,890 2,845 2,683 2,614 2,576 2,612 North 1,337 1,311 1,306 1,279 1,207 1,172 1,129 1,128 Wales 1,128 1,131 1,131 1,111 1,054 1,028 1,019 1,044 Scotland 2,230 2,241 2,295 2,254 2,151 2,129 2,101 2,113
Table 2—Civilian Employed Labour Force as percentage of civilian Working Population Per cent. June each year 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 South East 96.2 96.5 97.1 96.6 93.9 92.6 91.9 91.8 East Anglia 95.5 95.8 96.5 95.8 93.0 91.9 91.3 91.6 South West 94.4 94.7 95.5 95.0 92.6 91.4 90.8 90.8 West Midlands 95.3 95.4 95.5 94.2 88.8 86.9 85.8 86.4 East Midlands 95.6 95.7 96.1 94.9 91.5 90.5 89.7 89.4 Yorkshire and Humberside 95.1 94.9 95.2 93.8 89.9 88.4 87.5 87.5 North West 93.5 93.6 94.1 92.6 88.8 87.0 85.9 86.0 North 92.5 91.9 92.1 90.5 86.9 85.2 83.8 83.5 Wales 93.8 93.5 93.9 92.5 88.4 86.9 86.3 86.5 Scotland 92.8 92.8 93.2 91.8 88.9 87.6 86.6 86.5