§ Mr. Wattsasked the Paymaster General, pursuant to the answer of 10 February, Official Report, column 348, if he will list in the Official Report the number of people registered at Jobcentres located within the travel-to-work areas referred to.
§ Mr. LangThe following table gives the numbers of jobseekers who, on 3 January 1986, were registered at jobcentres which closely relate to those travel-to-work areas with an unemployment rate of 8 per cent. or less. It is not necessary to register for employment in order to use the jobcentre, nor should it be assumed that these figures represent all the jobseekers in the areas who are actively looking for work.
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Travel-to-work area and jobcentre Number of persons registered as at 3 January 1986 Winchester and Eastleigh Winchester 436 Eastleigh 552 Crawley Crawley 162 Dorking 116 East Grinstead 171 Gatwick 183 Haywards Heath 75 Horsham 132 Redhill 203 Clitheroe Clitheroe 471 Aylesbury and Wycombe Aylesbury 370 Chesham 54 High Wycombe 137 Basingstoke and Alton Basingstoke 349 Alton 219 Aberdeen Aberdeen 1,303
Travel-to-work area and jobcentre Number of persons registered as at 3 January 1986 Shetland Isles Lerwick 132 Cambridge Cambridge 544 Ely 65 Royston 124 Saffron Waldon 194 Guildford and Aldershot Guildford* 421 Camberley* 357 Slough Bracknell 67 Maidenhead 51 Slough 210 Windsor 62 Tunbridge Wells Edenbridge 138 Sevenoaks 125 Tonbridge 404 Tunbridge Wells 357 Bury St. Edmunds Bury St. Edmunds 1,359 Heathrow Acton 172 Chiswick 281 Ealing 180 Feltham 66 Hayes 22 Hounslow 917 Kingston 468 Richmond 339 Ruislip 270 Southall 197 Twickenham 172 Uxbridge 142 West Drayton 58 Oxford Abingdon 117 Didcot 513 Oxford* 836 Witney 148 Malton Malton 150 Reading Reading 1,120 Wokingham 93 * In the Guildford and Aldershot area, registrations at the Aldershot, Farnborough, Farnham and Fleet jobcentres are held centrally at Camberley. Registrationss from Godalming jobcentre are held at Guildford, and registration for Liphook are held at Havant Jobcentre which is in the Portsmouth travel-to-work area.
Registrations at the Wantage and Wallingford jobcentres are held centrally at Oxford.