§ Mr. Cohenasked the Paymaster General if he will provide the Treasury's estimate of unemployment totals for each quarter in the current financial year.
§ Mr. LeeThe Government do not forecast unemployment figures. However, following are the total numbers of unemployed claimants in the United Kingdom in the first three quarters of the 1986–87 financial year:
Numbers 10 April 1986 3,325,058 10 July 1986 3,279,594 9 October 1986 3,237,154