§ Mr. Stuart Hollandasked the Paymaster General if he will estimate how many construction workers were unemployed in Great Britain in 1975, 1980 and 1985 or the nearest available years.
§ Mr. LangIn May 1975 there were 148,568 unemployed registrants at jobcentres in Great Britain whose previous employment had been in the construction industry, and the corresponding number in May 1980 was 189,554. Industrial analysis of unemployment has not been available since the change in the basis of the unemployment count in October 1982.
Some information on unemployment by industry continues to be available from the annual labour force Slough survey, although these results are not directly comparable with those previously available from the monthly unemployment count. According to the 1984 labour force survey, in the spring of that year there were an estimated 233,000 persons unemployed in Great Britain whose most recent job in the last three years was in the construction industry.