§ 37. Mr. Jannerasked the Paymaster General how many people in the city of Leicester are unemployed (i) according to present methods of calculation and (ii) according to the method of calculation that was in operation in 1979.
§ Mr. LeeOn 9 October 1986, the number of unemployed claimants in the City of Leicester was 19,566. It is not possible to give a reliable estimate of local unemployment on a 1979 basis, because the effect on the statistics of administrative changes in the payment of benefit cannot be accurately assessed.