§ Mr. Sean Hughesasked the Paymaster General if he will specify the precise dates on which each of the administrative changes made to the compilation of the unemployment figures since 1979 was introduced.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeThe following changes have been made to the compilation of the monthly instalment figures since 1979:
Date for which unadjusted count was first affected
11 November 1982
Switch from count of registrants at jobcentres and careers offices to count of benefit claimants, following introduction of voluntary registration at jobcentres.6 March 1986
Delay in compilation by two weeks to remove mistaken over-recording caused by late arrival of information about the status of claimants.
§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Paymaster General if he will provide the figures for the numbers of people who have been(a) continuously unemployed since May 1979, (b) continuously unemployed since June 1983 and(c) who have never had a job since leaving school; and if he will provide figures for each region, and for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
§ Mr. LeeInformation is not available in the form requested. The following table gives the number of claimants in the regions of the United Kingdom who had been unemployed for over four years on 8 January 1987, the latest date for which an analysis of unemployment by duration is available (information on those unemployed over eight years is not available). It also shows for those areas the numbers of unemployed claimants of all ages who had not had a job since leaving full-time education at 12 February 1987, together with those aged under 18 years.
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Full-time education leavers 12 February 1987 Region Unemployed Over 4 years 8 January 1987 All ages Aged under 18 years South East 71,218 51,379 10,869 (Including Greater London) (39,965) (33,586) (5,904) East Anglia 7,870 4,268 1,236 South West 17,842 10,438 3,051 West Midlands 54,920 32,766 8,806 East Midlands 22,960 4,583 4,379 Yorkshire and Humberside 38,172 30,914 9,787
Full-time education leavers 12 February 1987 Region Unemployed Over 4 years 8 January 1987 All ages Aged under 18 years North West 65,436 41,663 10,825 North 34,877 20,347 6,073 Wales 22,699 15,044 4,266 Scotland 45,126 40,636 18,751 Northern Ireland 23,833 8,968 1,893 United Kingdom 404,953 271,006 79,936
§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Paymaster General if he will list, for each parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom(a) the number unemployed in May 1979, in June 1983 and at the last date for which figures are available, (b) the long-term unemployed on these dates and(c) the percentage increase in unemployed and in long-term unemployed from both May 1979 and June 1983.
§ Mr. LeeI am sending the hon. Member the available information which is also in the Library. The information relates to the number of unemployed claimants in each parliamentary constituency of Great Britain in June 1983 (not available for Northern Ireland constituencies) and of the United Kingdom on 12 February 1987. It is difficult to compare these figures directly because of seasonal factors and changes in the coverage of the data.
Statistics of unemployment for parliamentary constituencies are derived from the ward-based system and are available only from June 1983. Analyses of unemployment by duration are not available for February or June: statistics for constituencies of Great Britain at July 1983 and January 1987 are available in the Library.
§ Mr. Georgeasked the Paymaster General on what dates the measures taken to revise the method of computing the number of unemployed took effect; what were the measures; and how many were removed from the register.
§ Mr. TrippierIn recent years the following changes have been made to the compilation of the monthly unemployment figures:
Date on which unadjusted count was first affected Approximate average effect on the unadjusted count when the change occurred Switch from count of registrants at jobcentres and careers offices to count of benefit claimants, following inroduction of voluntary registration at jobcentres. 11 November 1982 -190,000 Delay in compilation by two weeks to remove mistaken over-recording caused by late arrival of information about the status of claimants. 6 March 1986 -50,000
§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Paymaster General if he will list the number of employees in 1981 and 1984, and 434W any estimate he has for 1986, and the numbers employed in(a) manufacturing,(b) construction,(c) metal manufacturing, and (d) engineering and allied industries in each Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. Kenneth Clarke[pursuant to his reply, 26 March 1987, c. 240–41]: Constituency figures can be provided only for those dates when censuses of employment are taken and the most recent are for September 1981. The September 1984 small area census estimates are expected to become available shortly and a copy will be placed in the Library.
The currently available information from the 1981 census given in the table below relates only to numbers of people employed excluding self employed people, in constituencies in Great Britain. An industry breakdown and an estimate of the number of self-employed people is not available for each constituency.
The figures are therefore not a measure of the number of jobs in each constituency.
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Employees in employment: Parliamentary constituencies: September 1981 Constituency Number of employees Barrow and Furness 36,500 Berwick-upon-Tweed 22,300 Bishop Auckland 33,300 City of Durham 38,400 Copeland 29,000 Easington 32,300 Hexham 20,500 Langbaurgh 15,300 North Durham 18,000 North West Durham 17,800 Penrith and the Border 25,800 Sedgefield 23,800 Wansbeck 29,800 Westmoreland and Lonsdale 28,000 Workington 23,500 Blaydon 27,200 Blyth Valley 19,900 Carlisle 35,500 Darlington 36,500 Gateshead East 29,200 Hartlepool 33,200 Houghton and Washington 28,500 Jarrow 21,300 Middlesbrough 47,400 Newcastle upon Tyne Central 33,300 Newcastle upon Tyne East 57,500 Newcastle upon Tyne North 18,100 Redcar 42,800 South Shields 29,100 Stockton North 41,700 Stockton South 26,400 Sunderland North 42,700 Sunderland South 24,800 Tyne Bridge 62,200 Tynemouth 28,200 Wallsend 37,800 Barnsley West and Penistone 27,400 Beverley 32,500 Booth Ferry 23,100 Bridlington 23,800 Brigg and Cleethorpes 28,400 Calder Valley 28,500 Colne Valley 23,000 Dewsbury 29,900 Doncaster North 24,400 Don Valley 21,700 Elmet 20,900 Harrogate 34,200 436W
Constituency Number of employees Hemsworth 20,500 Keighley 29,300 Normanton 20,000 Pontefract and Castleford 37,700 Richmond (Yorks) 29,300 Rother Valley 20,400 Ryedale 26,400 Scarborough 28,700 Selby 32,200 Sheffield, Hallam 23,500 Sheffield, Hillsborough 25,300 Shipley 21,900 Skipton and Ripon 30,600 Wentworth 15,700 Barnsley Central 27,800 Barnsley East 23,200 Batley and Spen 31,800 Bradford North 38,900 Bradford South 24,300 Bradford West 62,300 Doncaster Central 55,400 Glanford and Scunthorpe 34,500 Great Grimsby 44,900 Halifax 45,200 Huddersfield 42,500 Kingston upon Hull East 25,100 Kingston upon Hull North 22,000 Kingston upon Hull West 62,400 Leeds Central 141,200 Leeds East 19,600 Leeds North East 13,700 Leeds North West 21,100 Leeds West 23,800 Morley and Leeds South 29,600 Pudsey 26,800 Rotherham 42,700 Sheffield, Attercliffe 32,800 Sheffield, Brightside 23,300 Sheffield Central 120,900 Sheffield, Heeley 15,600 Wakefield 50,100 York 59,100 Amber Valley 29,200 Ashfield 38,200 Bassetlaw 31,800 Blaby 27,200 Bolsover 20,000 Bosworth 33,000 Broxtowe 33,200 Corby 25,900 Daventry 23,200 East Lindsey 26,400 Erewash 28,500 Gainsborough and Horncastle 22,700 Gedling 20,700 Grantham 30,700 Harborough 29,700 High Peak 28,300 Holland with Boston 27,100 Kettering 26,700 Loughborough 36,300 Mansfield 31.800 Newark 31,800 North East Derbyshire 23,100 North West Leicestershire 33,300 Rushcliffe 24,500 Rutland and Melton 31,000 Sherwood 34,300 South Derbyshire 19,000 Stamford and Spalding 26,800 Wellingborough 32,600 West Derbyshire 33,700 Chesterfield 45,400 Derby North 31,600 Derby South 75,600 Leicester East 35,300 437W
Constituency Number of employees Leicester South 72,900 Leicester West 52,100 Lincoln 46,200 Northampton North 25,200 Northampton South 58,200 Nottingham East 45,900 Nottingham North 18,700 Nottingham South 96,500 Bury St. Edmunds 40,800 Central Suffolk 24,200 Great Yarmouth 31,100 Huntingdon 27,200 Mid Norfolk 17,700 North East Cambridgeshire 25,200 North Norfolk 21,600 North West Norfolk 32,000 South East Cambridgeshire 22,900 South Norfolk 20,900 South Suffolk 31,600 South West Cambridgeshire 34,100 South West Norfolk 26,600 Suffolk Coastal 29,500 Waveney 35,400 Cambridge 52,700 Ipswich 52,500 Norwich North 21,500 Norwich South 72,400 Peterborough 59,600 Barking 25,100 Battersea 31,100 Beckenham 22,700 Bethnal Green and Stepney 55,200 Bexleyheath 14,400 Bow and Poplar 29,100 Brent East 28,700 Brent North 25,100 Brent South 54,900 Brentford and Isleworth 57,900 Carshalton and Wallington 23,500 Chelsea 54,100 Chingford 16,800 Chipping Barnet 26,000 Chislehurst 19,100 Croydon Central 75,800 Croydon North East 15,700 Croydon North West 32,900 Croydon South 19,000 Dagenham 45,900 Dulwich 17,300 Ealing, Acton 49,700 Ealing North 25,200 Ealing, Southall 42,200 Edmonton 25,300 Eltham 13,400 Enfield North 45,700 Enfield, Southgate 15,000 Erith and Crayford 22,600 Feltham and Heston 76,000 Finchley 20,200 Fulham 27,700 Greenwich 25,500 Hackney North and Stoke Newington 16,800 Hackney South and Shoreditch 64,400 Hammersmith 51,400 Hampstead and Highgate 28,900 Harrow East 39,300 Harrow West 16,400 Hayes and Harlington 48,500 Hendon North 25,400 Hendon South 25,000 Holborn and St. Pancras 179,600 Hornchurch 14,900 Hornsey and Wood Green 34,300 Ilford North 17,300 Ilford South 31,900 Islington North 31,800 438W
Constituency Number of employees Maidstone 46,700 Medway 53,000 Mid Kent 18,600 Mid Sussex 32,000 Mole Valley 31,600 Newbury 37,500 New Forest 23,500 North Thanet 18,900 North West Hampshire 27,000 North West Surrey 36,300 Reading East 67,600 Reading West 21,800 Romsey and Waterside 28,300 Sevenoaks 27,100 Shoreham 24,300 South Thanet 24,600 South West Surrey 27,500 Tonbridge and Malling 39,400 Tunbridge Wells 36,300 Wealden 20,500 Winchester 50,400 Windsor and Maidenhead 43,000 Woking 33,900 Wokingham 25,200 Brighton, Kemptown 18,400 Brighton, Pavilion 49,700 Chertsey and Walton 38,100 Crawley 54,400 Eastbourne 34,000 Eastleigh 43,800 Epsom and Ewell 26,200 Esher 22,100 Gillingham 16,300 Gosport 22,800 Havant 30,500 Hove 27,700 Portsmouth, North 42,500 Portsmouth, South 56,300 Reigate 34,900 Slough 59,000 Southampton, Itchen 67,200 Southampton, Test 33,100 Spelthorne 42,700 Worthing 33,200 Bridgwater 28,600 Christchurch 23,300 Cirencester and Tewkesbury 37,500 Devizes 36,100 Falmouth and Camborne 23,900 Honiton 20,400 Islington South and Finsbury 81,600 Kensington 28,900 Kingston upon Thames 43,900 Lewisham, Deptford 26,300 Lewisham East 16,900 Lewisham West 18,500 Leyton 19,800 Mitcham and Morden 22,700 Newham North East 14,200 Newham North West 36,000 Newham South 24,600 Norwood 19,200 Old Bexley and Sidcup 18,400 Orpington 17,300 Peckham 25,100 Putney 26,300 Ravensbourne 24,500 Richmond and Barnes 24,100 Romford 30,300 Ruslip-Northwood 18,800 Southwark and Bermondsey 87,500 Streatham 21,700 Surbiton 18,100 Sutton and Cheam 26,200 The City of London and Westminster South 790,400 Tooting 23,600 439W
Constituency Number of employees Tottenham 26,900 Twickenham 30,500 Upminister 16,700 Uxbridge 41,600 Vauxhall 90,700 Walthamstow 22,100 Wanstead and Woodford 12,000 Westminster North 42,500 Wimbledon 36,700 Woolwich 28,600 Aylesbury 40,900 Banbury 33,100 Beaconsfield 28,100 Billericay 25,400 Braintree 34,900 Brentwood and Ongar 26,700 Buckingham 26,000 Chelmsford 45,900 Chesham and Amersham 23,700 Epping Forest 24,600 Harlow 41,100 Harwich 24,200 Henley 22,900 Hertford and Stortford 36,500 Northavon 25,700 North Cornwall 25,200 North Devon 25,800 North Dorset 18,600 North Wiltshire 31,200 St. Ives 20,700 Salisbury 35,500 Somerset and Frome 21,500 South Dorset 27,700 South East Cornwall 15,500 South Hams 20,100 Stroud 32,900 Taunton 36,800 Teignbridge 24,600 Tiverton 24,000 Torridge and West Devon 22,500 Truro 34,200 Wansdyke 24,400 Wells 27,300 Westbury 38,400 West Dorset 26,700 West Gloucestershire 30,800 Weston-Super-Mare 25,700 Woodspring 19,900 Yeovil 34,000 Bath 39,900 Bournemouth East 35,300 Bournemouth West 24,800 Bristol East 58,800 Bristol North West 49,200 Bristol South 34,300 Bristol West 65,600 Cheltenham 48,300 Exeter 54,300 Gloucester 50,800 Kingswood 26,600 Plymouth, Devonport 33,800 Plymouth, Drake 42,800 Plymouth, Sutton 16,500 Poole 40,300 Swindon 52,300 Torbay 30,200 Bromsgrove 19,700 Burton 39,700 Cannock and Burntwood 25,100 Hereford 34,000 Leominster 19,200 Ludlow 21,100 Meriden 17,300 Mid Staffordshire 32,400 Mid Worcestershire 37,300 North Shropshire 27,800 440W
Constituency Number of employees North Warwickshire 30,500 Nuneaton 27,300 Rugby and Kenilworth 36,700 Shrewsbury and Atcham 35,900 South East Staffordshire 19,300 South Staffordshire 19,500 South Worcestershire 31,600 Stafford 46,600 Staffordshire Moorlands 24,900 Stratford-on-Avon 30,700 Warwick and Leamington 47,500 Wyre Forest 31,100 Aldridge-Brownhills 20,800 Birmingham, Edgbaston 43,000 Birmingham, Erdington 44,900 Birmingham, Hall Green 12,100 Birmingham, Hodge Hill 21,800 Birmingham, Ladywood 116,200 Birmingham, Northfield 37,300 Birmingham, Perry Barr 16,400 Birmingham, Selly Oak 34,800 Birmingham, Small Heath 87,100 Birmingham, Sparkbrook 42,100 Birmingham, Yardley 32,100 Coventry North East 19,000 Coventry North West 24,600 Coventry South East 74,400 Coventry South West 24,400 Dudley East 42,300 Dudley West 26,900 Halesowen and Stourbridge 35,800 Newcastle-under-Lyme 29,000 Solihull 43,300 Stoke-on-Trent Central 55,800 Stoke-on-Trent North 31,300 Stoke-on-Trent South 39,200 Sutton Coldfield 19,600 The Wrekin 36,900 Walsall North 30,000 Walsall South 53,800 Warley East 24,200 Warley West 32,100 West Bromwich East 34,300 West Bromwich West 43,400 Wolverhampton North East 36,000 Wolverhampton South East 40,100 Wolverhampton South West 31,000 Worcester 42,500 Bolton West 21,800 Chorley 26,600 City of Chester 41,400 Congleton 27,700 Crewe and Nantwich 39,400 Eddisbury 22,400 Ellesmere Port and Neston 46,200 Fylde 32,000 Halton 39,100 Hazel Grove 19,800 Heywood and Middleton 20,500 Knowsley North 29,600 Knowsley South 33,000 Lancaster 28,600 Littleborough and Saddleworth 18,200 Macclesfield 32,500 Makerfield 19,000 Morecambe and Lunesdale 18,200 Ribble Valley 24,300 South Ribble 34,800 Stalybridge and Hyde 29,000 Tatton 33,800 West Lancashire 29,600 Wirral South 23,800 Wirral West 8,800 Worsley 19,400 Wyre 23,000 Altrincham and Sale 25,600 441W
Constituency Number of employees Ashton under Lyne 30,000 Birkenhead 44,300 Blackburn 43,700 Blackpool North 36,400 Blackpool South 17,000 Bolton North East 36,300 Bolton South East 35,400 Bootle 37,200 Burnley 39,700 Bury North 30,800 Bury South 20,700 Cheadle 20,000 Crosby 16,200 Davyhulme 34,300 Denton and Reddish 42,400 Eccles 36,800 Hyndburn 25,400 Leigh 29,800 Liverpool, Broadgreen 33,300 Liverpool, Garston 23,400 Liverpool, Mossley Hill 24,600 Liverpool, Riverside 125,700 Liverpool, Walton 32,700 Liverpool, West Derby 13,800 Manchester, Blackley 16,400 Manchester Central 214,500 Manchester, Gorton 11,800 Manchester, Withington 19,900 Manchester, Wythenshawe 25,900 Oldham Central and Royton 40,300 Oldham West 30,900 Pendle 29,200 Preston 63,500 Rochdale 36,000 Rossendale and Darwen 30,100 St. Helens North 16,000 St. Helens South 48,700 Salford East 40,600 Southport 24,000 Stockport 28,700 Stretford 47,900 Wallasey 17,100 Warrington North 48,200 Warrington South 26,800 Wigan 38,900 Aberavon 28,400 Alyn and Deeside 24,000 Blaenau Gwent 21,600 Brecon and Radnor 18,000 Bridgend 30,900 Carnarfon 16,600 Caerphilly 23,700 Carmarthen 22,200 Ceredigion and Pembroke North 19,900 Clwyd North West 24,800 Clwyd South West 17,000 Conwy 25,400 Cynon Valley 17,700 Delyn 20,700 Gower 15,000 Islwyn 17,700 Llanelli 27,700 Meirionnydd Nant Conwy 10,700 Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney 23,600 Monmouth 26,900 Montgomery 14,900 Neath 22,100 Newport East 16,100 Newport West 40,900 Ogmore 13,000 Pembroke 29,800 Pontypridd 36,200 Rhondda 16,300 Torfaen 27,100 Vale of Glamorgan 21,900 Wrexham 28,400 442W
Constituency Number of employees Ynys Mon 16,700 Cardiff Central 68,800 Cardiff North 24,100 Cardiff South and Penarth 34,100 Cardiff West 18,700 Swansea East 24,400 Swansea West 49,500 Angus East 21,100 Argyll and Bute 20,500 Ayr 37,000 Banff and Buchan 25,000 Caithness and Sutherland 13,300 Carrick Cumnock and Doon Valley 22.200 Central Fife 25,400 Clackmannan 18,500 Clydebank and Milngavie 15,600 Clydesdale 20,100 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 14,200 Cunninghame North 15,400 Cunninghame South 21,600 Dumbarton 24,100 Dumfries 30,200 Dunfermline East 23,500 Dunfermline West 23,900 East Kilbride 28,300 East Lothian 21,400 Eastwood 14,200 Falkirk East 25,700 Falkirk West 29,300 Galloway and Upper Nithsdale 22,000 Gordon 34,300 Inverness Nairn and Lochaber 42,300 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 26,900 Kincardine and Deeside 13,300 Kirkcaldy 31,400 Linlithgow 22,600 Livingston 29,000 Midlothian 24,200 Moray 24,400 North East Fife 17,100 North Tayside 22,300 Orkney and Shetland 17,100 Perth and Kinross 33,500 Renfrew West and Inverclyde 18,000 Ross Cromarty and Skye 18,700 Roxburgh and Berwickshire 17,200 Stirling 30,500 Strathkelvin and Bearsden 18,200 Tweeddale Ettrick and Lauderdale 19,300 Western Isles 8,200 Aberdeen North 27,100 Aberdeen South 77,400 Dundee East 20,700 Dundee West 56,500 Edinburgh Central 113,400 Edinburgh East 17,800 Edinburgh Leith 40,500 Edinburgh Pentlands 18,000 Edinburgh South 18,700 Edinburgh West 21,300 Glasgow Cathcart 15,500 Glasgow Central 83,300 Glasgow Garscadden 12,600 Glasgow Govan 19,500 Glasgow Hillhead 120,200 Glasgow Maryhill 25,800 Glasgow Pollock 20,800 Glasgow Provan 9,000 Glasgow Rutherglen 17,300 Glasgow Shettleston 24,400 Glasgow Springburn 29,700 Green and Port Glasgow 33,200 Hamilton 27,800 Monklands East 17,100 Monklands West 19,500 Motherwell North 24,100
Constituency Number of employees Motherwell South 30,600 Paisley North 52,100 Paisley South 16,000