§ Mr. Allen McKayasked the Paymaster General if he will give the numbers of persons unemployed by age groups in (a) the Barnsley area and (b) the Barnsley West and Penistone constituency area for each year since 1979.
§ Mr. LangThe following information is in the Library. The tables show the numbers of unemployed claimants by age groups in the Barnsley travel-to-work area and the Barnsley, West and Penistone parliamentary constituency for April of each year from 1984 to 1986. The comparison is affected by the change in the compilation of unemployment statistics in March 1986. Statistics of unemployment for these areas are derived from the new ward-based system and are available only from June 1983.
§ Mr. LangThe following information is in the Library. The table shows the numbers of unemployed claimants aged under 25 years in the Coventry local authority district, the west midlands region and the United Kingdom who, on 10 April 1986, the latest date for which an analysis of unemployment by age and duration is available had been unemployed for the durations requested.
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Unemployed Claimants aged under 25 years Coventry local authority district West Midlands Region United Kingdom Over one year 3,744 18,942 331,471 Over two years 1,975 19.829 159,632 Over three years 1,054 11,313 86,541 Over four years 541 5,841 41,743 Over five years* 200 2,414 17,368 All durations 9,733 122,730 1,183,833 * These figures are affected by industrial action in 1981 and consequent emergency computer procedures.