§ Mr. Parryasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the latest unemployment figures.
§ Mr. LeeThe following information is in the Library. On 14 May 1987 the number of unemployed claimants in the United Kingdom was 2,986,453. This was 284,000 lower than a year ago, the largest 12-month fall since similar records began in 1948.
§ Mr. Parryasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) what plans he has to reduce unemployment on (a) Merseyside and (b) Liverpool; and if he will make a statement;
(2) what plans he has to reduce unemployment in England and Wales; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. LeeThe Government will continue to pursue policies of sound financial management designed further to reduce inflation and to promote investment, enterprise and increased employment in Liverpool, Merseyside and throughout England and Wales. These policies have so far produced more than one million new jobs since 1983.
Merseyside and Liverpool attract very high levels of Government assistance which helps support and create employment. The whole of Merseyside has development area status, and local authorities in Merseyside also benefit under the urban programme. A city action team and a development corporation operate in the county; and there is an enterprise zone in Speke. Liverpool is an inner city partnership area, and also has a freeport. Unemployment in Merseyside was 128,167 in May 1987 as against 139,502 in May 1986; corresponding figures for Liverpool were 96,974 and 105,684.
My Department and the Manpower Services Commission operate over 30 employment, enterprise and training measures described in the "Action for Jobs" booklet, all of which are available in Merseyside and Liverpool.
My Department is also consulting the Manpower Services Commission with a view to providing a comprehensive employment service for unemployed people and there will be a guaranteed place on YTS for every 16 or 17-year-old unemployed school leaver.
§ Mr. Parryasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report the level of unemployment in all constituencies in England and Wales at the latest date.
§ Mr. LeeThe following information is in the Library:
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Constituency Unemployed claimants 14 May 1987 Luton South 6,306 Mid Bedfordshire 2,556 North Bedfordshire 3,953 North Luton 4,053 South West Bedfordshire 3,383 East Berkshire 2,848
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Constituency Unemployed claimants 14 May 1987 Newbury 1,828 Reading East 3,206 Reading West 2,786 Slough 4,068 Windsor and Maidenhead 2,062 Wokingham 1,563 Aylesbury 2,157 Beaconsfield 1,468 Buckingham 2,257 Chesham and Amersham 1,334 Milton Keynes 6,055 Wycombe 2,477 Bexhill and Battle 1,775 Brighton Kemptown 4,453 Brighton Pavilion 4,423 Eastbourne 3,063 Hastings and Rye 4,190 Hove 3,962 Lewes 2,191 Wealden 1,523 Basildon 5,516 Billericay 3,290 Braintree 2,675 Brentwood and Ongar 1,964 Castle Point 2,801 Chelmsford 2,601 Epping Forest 2,597 Harlow 3,718 Harwich 4,360 North Colchester 3,541 Rochford 2,426 Saffron Walden 1,923 South Colchester and Maldon 3,686 Southend East 4,070 Southend West 2,994 Thurrock 5,170 Aldershot 2,440 Basingstoke 2,395 East Hampshire 2,065 Eastleigh 3,841 Fareham 2,984 Gosport 3,559 Havant 4,795 Isle of Wight 5,901 New Forest 2,177 North West Hampshire 1,882 Portsmouth North 4,423 Portsmouth South 7,222 Romsey and Waterside 3,081 Southampton Itchen 6,438 Southampton Test 5,480 Winchester 1,917 Broxbourne 2,622 Hertford and Stortford 1,760 Hertsmere 2,441 North Hertfordshire 2,794 South West Herfordshire 1,934 St. Albans 2,076 Stevenage 3,476 Watford 2,874 Welwyn Hatfield 2,467 West Hertfordshire 2,826 Ashford 3,191 Canterbury 3,704 Dartford 2,959 Dover 4,145 Faversham 4,819 Folkestone and Hythe 4,267 Gillingham 4,126 Gravesham 4,355 Maidstone 2,809 Medway 4,138 Mid Kent 3,943 North Thanet 4.998 Sevenoaks 1,937
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Constituency Unemployed claimants 14 May 1987 South Thanet 4,262 Tonbridge and Mailing 2,339 Tunbridge Wells 1,942 Banbury 2,641 Henley 1,420 Oxford East 3,267 Oxford West and Abingdon 2,205 Wantage 1,575 Witney 1,889 Chertsey and Walton 1,708 East Surrey 1,336 Epsom and Ewell 1,659 Esher 1,171 Guildford 1,611 Mole Valley 1,240 North West Surrey 1,756 Reigate 1,701 South West Surrey 1,343 Spelthorne 1,900 Woking 1,927 Arundel 2,763 Chichester 2,003 Crawley 2,047 Horsham 1,753 Mid Sussex 1,592 Shoreham 2,007 Worthing 2,411 Cambridge 3,092 Huntingdon 3,122 North East Cambridgeshire 4,026 Peterborough 7,290 South East Cambridgeshire 1,648 South West Cambridgeshire 2,151 Great Yarmouth 6,716 Mid Norfolk 2,923 North Norfolk 3,106 North West Norfolk 4,428 Norwich North 3,599 Norwich South 5,596 South Norfolk 2,722 South West Norfolk 3,758 Bury St. Edmunds 2,818 Central Suffolk 2,804 Ipswich 3,935 South Suffolk 3,059 Suffolk Coastal 2,414 Waveney 5,847 Barking 3,386 Battersea 6,101 Beckenham 2,788 Bethnal Green and Stepney 7,779 Bexley Heath 2,166 Bow and Poplar 7,769 Brent East 6,903 Brent North 3,012 Brent South 6,350 Brentford and Isleworth 3,596 Carshalton and Wallington 2,524 Chelsea 3,576 Chingford 2,454 Chipping Barnet 1,900 Chislehurst 1,999 Croydon Central 2,991 Croydon North East 3,454 Croydon North West 3,609 Croydon South 1,726 Dagenham 3,585 Dulwich 4,359 Ealing North 3,586 Ealing Acton 4,391 Ealing Southall 5,224 Edmonton 3,827 Eltham 3,268 Enfield North 3,360 Enfield Southgate 2,630
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Constituency Unemployed claimants 14 May 1987 Erith and Crayford 3,650 Feltham and Heston 4,364 Finchley 2,632 Fulham 5,010 Greenwich 4,426 Hackney North and Stoke Newington 9,402 Hackney South and Shoreditch 10,365 Hammersmith 6,461 Hampstead and Highgate 5,541 Harrow East 3,320 Harrow West 2,368 Hayes and Harlington 2,702 Hendon North 2,592 Hendon South 2,562 Holborn and St. Pancras 8,100 Hornchurch 2,513 Hornsey and Wood Green 6,976 Ilford North 2,625 Ilford South 3,926 Islington North 9,034 Islington South and Finsbury 7,034 Kensington 4,975 Kingston-upon-Thames 2,174 Lewisham East 4,238 Lewisham West 4,978 Lewisham Deptford 7,730 Leyton 5,151 Mitcham and Morden 3,513 Newham North East 5,440 Newham North West 5,325 Newham South 5,388 Norwood 7,989 Old Bexley and Sidcup 1,669 Orpington 2,070 Peckham 8,647 Putney 3,493 Ravensbourne 1,833 Richmond-upon-Thames and Barnes 2,188 Romford 2,577 Ruislip-Northwood 1,381 Southwark and Bermondsey 7,043 Streatham 6,061 Surbiton 1,328 Sutton and Cheam 1,808 The City of London and Westminster 4,827 Tooting 5,181 Tottenham 9,307 Twickenham 2,010 Upminster 2,590 Uxbridge 2,273 Vauxhall 9,929 Walthamstow 3,671 Wanstead and Woodford 1,953 Westminster North 8,003 Wimbledon 2,378 Woolwich 5,863 Bath 3,220 Bristol East 4,487 Bristol North West 4,365 Bristol South 6,461 Bristol West 6,033 Kingswood 3,471 Northavon 2,987 Wansdyke 2,526 Weston-Super-Mare 3,643 Woodspring 2,410 Falmouth and Camborne 5,616 North Cornwall 4,732 South East Cornwall 3,590 St. Ives 5,222 Truro 4,511 Exeter 4,370 Honiton 2,669 North Devon 3,576 Plymouth Devonport 4,965
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Constituency Unemployed claimants 14 May 1987 Plymouth Drake 5,738 Plymouth Sutton 3,568 South Hams 3,622 Teignbridge 3,453 Tiverton 2,619 Torbay 5,319 Torridge and West Devon 3,698 Bournemouth East 4,508 Bournemouth West 3,671 Christchurch 2,013 North Dorset 2,042 Poole 3,534 South Dorset 3,600 West Dorset 1,815 Cheltenham 3,732 Cirencester and Tewkesbury 2,467 Gloucester 4,341 Stroud 3,091 West Gloucestershire 4,049 Bridgwater 3,648 Somerton and Frome 2,428 Taunton 3,399 Wells 2,782 Yeovil 2,723 Devizes 3,061 North Wiltshire 2,948 Salisbury 2,718 Swindon 5,833 Westbury 3,308 Bromsgrove 3,726 Hereford 3,606 Leominster 2,936 Mid Worcestershire 5,288 South Worcestershire 3,133 Worcester 4,206 Wyre Forest 4,596 Ludlow 3,263 North Shropshire 3,861 Shrewsbury and Atcham 3,628 The Wrekin 8,507 Burton 4,411 Cannock and Burntwood 4,819 Mid Staffordshire 3,814 Newcastle-under-Lyme 3,772 South East Staffordshire 5,395 South Staffordshire 4,788 Stafford 3,759 Staffordshire Moorlands 2,939 Stoke-on-Trent Central 5,348 Stoke-on-Trent North 5,296 Stoke-on-Trent South 4,522 North Warwickshire 4,822 Nuneaton 4,599 Rugby and Kenilworth 3,859 Stratford-on-Avon 2,877 Warwick and Leamington 4,054 Aldridge-Brownhills 3,776 Birmingham Edgbaston 5,090 Birmingham Erdington 7,632 Birmingham Hall Green 5,494 Birmingham Hodge Hill 7,211 Birmingham Ladywood 8,973 Birmingham Northfield 7,747 Birmingham Perry Barr 7,536 Birmingham Small Heath 9,733 Birmingham Sparkbrook 8,701 Birmingham Yardley 4,871 Birmingham Selly Oak 5,905 Coventry North East 7,964 Coventry North West 4,623 Coventry South East 6,215 Coventry South West 4,139 Dudley East 7,531 Dudley West 5,898 Halesowen and Stourbridge 4,534
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Constituency Unemployed claimants 14 May 1987 Meriden 6,641 Solihull 3,191 Sutton Coldfield 3,279 Walsall North 7,347 Walsall South 6,712 Warley East 6,165 Warley West 5,260 West Bromwich East 5,592 West Bromwich West 6,553 Wolverhampton North East 7,912 Wolverhampton South East 6,531 Wolverhampton South West 5,951 Amber Valley 4,010 Bolsover 5,394 Chesterfield 5,665 Erewash 4,688 Derby North 5,002 Derby South 7,508 High Peak 3,574 North East Derbyshire 5,159 South Derbyshire 4,063 West Derbyshire 2,673 Blaby 2,399 Bosworth 3,051 Harborough 2,116 Leicester East 4,953 Leicester South 6,501 Leicester West 6,104 Loughborough 3,007 North West Leicestershire 3,980 Rutland and Melton 2,577 East Lindsey 5,204 Gainsborough and Horncastle 3,885 Grantham 4,129 Holland with Boston 3,579 Lincoln 6,539 Stamford and Spalding 3,001 Corby 4,133 Daventry 2,305 Kettering 2,725 Northampton North 4,226 Northampton South 3,663 Wellingborough 3,325 Ashfield 5,042 Bassetlaw 5,500 Broxtowe 3,606 Gedling 3,724 Mansfield 3,303 Newark 4,173 Nottingham East 9,044 Nottingham North 6,995 Nottingham South 6,126 Rushcliffe 3,329 Sherwood 5,121 Beverley 3,171 Booth Ferry 4,062 Bridlington 4,551 Brigg and Cleethorpes 5,976 Glanford and Scunthorpe 5,903 Great Grimsby 6,937 Kingston-upon-Hull East 7,180 Kingston-upon-Hull North 8,239 Kingston-upon-Hull West 7,345 Harrogate 2,950 Richmond 3,392 Ryedale 2,765 Scarborough 4,626 Selby 3,317 Skipton and Ripon 2,380 York 5,752 Barnsley Central 5,841 Barnsley East 5,456 Barnsley West and Penistone 5,626 Don Valley 7,077 Doncaster Central 7,712
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Constituency Unemployed claimants 14 May 1987 Doncaster North 8,195 Rother Valley 5,719 Rotherham 6,480 Sheffield Central 9,817 Sheffield Attercliffe 5,926 Sheffield Brightside 7,693 Sheffield Hallam 4,483 Sheffield Heeley 7,154 Sheffield Hillsborough 5,615 Wentworth 6,228 Batley and Spen 4,714 Bradford North 7,324 Bradford South 5,700 Bradford West 8,135 Calder Valley 3,840 Colne Valley 3,570 Dewsbury 4,832 Elmet 3,219 Halifax 5,147 Hemsworth 5,442 Huddersfield 5,191 Keighly 3,708 Leeds Central 6,989 Leeds East 6,755 Leeds North East 4,283 Leeds North West 3,643 Leeds West 5,273 Morley and Leeds South 4,178 Normanton 3,560 Pontefract and Castleford 5,879 Pudsey 2,784 Shipley 3,113 Wakefield 4,939 City of Chester 5,200 Congleton 2,624 Crewe and Nantwich 4,451 Eddisbury 4,373 Ellesmere Port and Neston 5,856 Halton 7,091 Macclesfield 2,822 Tatton 3,380 Warrington North 5,981 Warrington South 5,745 Altrincham and Sale 2,748 Ashton-under-Lyne 4,697 Bolton North East 4,963 Bolton South East 6,043 Bolton West 4,551 Bury North 3,922 Bury South 4,081 Cheadle 2,198 Davyhulme 4,146 Denton and Reddish 5,427 Eccles 5,126 Hazel Grove 3,157 Hey wood and Middleton 5,382 Leigh 5,608 Littleborough and Saddleworth 3,369 Makerfield 5,889 Manchester Central 10,796 Manchester Blackley 6,477 Manchester Gorton 6,817 Manchester Withington 6,602 Manchester Wythenshawe 6,121 Oldham Central and Royton 5,652 Oldham West 4,206 Rochdale 5,904 Salford East 7,944 Stalybridge and Hyde 5,498 Stockport 4,237 Stretford 8,476 Wigan 6,590 Worsley 5,509 Blackburn 7,090 Blackpool North 5,190
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Constituency Unemployed claimants 14 May 1987 Blackpool South 5,524 Burnley 5,103 Chorley 4,076 Fylde 2,586 Hyndburn 3,372 Lancaster 3,098 Morecambe and Lunesdale 4,150 Pendle 3,763 Preston 6,802 Ribble Valley 1,799 Rossendale and Darwen 3,822 South Ribble 3,741 West Lancashire 6,455 Wyre 3,483 Birkenhead 9,200 Bootle 10,168 Crosby 4,957 Knowsley North 8,824 Knowsley South 9,044 Liverpool Broadgreen 8,206 Liverpool Garston 7,532 Liverpool Mossley Hill 7,150 Liverpool Riverside 10,818 Liverpool Walton 10,498 Liverpool West Derby 8,995 Southport 4,307 St. Helens North 6,253 St. Helens South 7,222 Wallasey 7,235 Wirral South 3,683 Wirral West 4,075 Barrow and Furness 4,126 Carlisle 3,802 Copeland 3,495 Penrith and the Borders 2,851 Westmorland and Lonsdale 1,960 Workington 3,787 Hartlepool 8,504 Langbaurgh 7,233 Middlesbrough 9,884 Redcar 7,957 Stockton North 8,118 Stockton South 7,019 Bishop Auckland 5,999 City of Durham 4,105 Darlington 5,500 Easington 5,841 North Durham 6,137 North West Durham 5,241 Sedgefield 4,647 Berwick-upon-Tweed 3,697 Blyth Valley 4,832 Hexham 2,163 Wansbeck 5,523 Blaydon 4,831 Gateshead East 6,494 Houghton and Washington 7,836 Jarrow 7,279 Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central 5,508 Newcastle-upon-Tyne East 7,145 Newcastle-upon-Tyne North 6,097 South Shields 7,171 Sunderland North 10,397 Sunderland South 8,221 Tyne Bridge 9,009 Tynemouth 6,340 Wallsend 7,845 Alyn and Deeside 3,805 Clwyd North West 5,027 Clwyd South West 3,671 Delyn 4,318 Wrexham 4,431 Carmarthen 3,696 Ceredigion and Pembroke North 3,884 Llanelli 4,319
Constituency Unemployed claimants 14 May 1987 Pembroke 6,146 Blaenau Gwent 4,953 Islwyn 3,666 Monmouth 2,875 Newport East 4,553 Newport West 5,134 Torfaen 4,903 Caernarfon 3,227 Conwy 3,474 Meirionnydd nant Conwy 1,692 Ynys Mon 4,566 Bridgend 3,381 Caerphilly 5,116 Cynon Valley 4,158 Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney 4,737 Ogmore 4,316 Pontypridd 4,428 Rhondda 4,801 Brecon and Radnor 2,299 Montgomery 1,921 Cardiff Central 5,786 Cardiff North 2,379 Cardiff South and Penarth 5,078 Cardiff West 5,566 Vale of Glamorgan 4,428 Aberavon 3,791 Gower 3,132 Neath 3,783 Swansea East 4,999 Swansea West 5,340
§ Mr. Parryasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Offical Report the latest unemployment figures in the regions of England and Wales at the latest available date.
§ Mr. LeeThe following information is in the Library.
Unemployed Claimants Region 14 May 1987 South-East 690,901 (including Greater London) (368,900) East Anglia 75,054 South-West 178,582 West Midlands 310,531 East Midlands 187,101 Yorkshire and Humberside 289,786 North-West 407,880 North 216,594 Wales 157,779
§ Mr. Parryasked the Secretary of State for Employment what was the level of unemployment in the Liverpool travel-to-work area at the latest date; and what were the figures in June 1979.
§ Mr. LeeThe following information is in the Library. On 14 May 1987 the number of unemployed claimants in the Liverpool travel-to-work area was 96,974. Comparisons with June 1979 are difficult to make because of changes in the coverage of the data. However, in June 1979, the number of unemployed registrants in jobcentre areas closely corresponding to the Liverpool travel-towork area, as defined in 1978, was 59,399.
§ Mr. Parryasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the latest level of youth unemployment in (a) Liverpool and (b) Merseyside.
§ Mr. LeeThe following information is in the Library. On 9 April 1987, the latest date for which an analysis of 139W unemployment by age is available, the number of unemployed claimants aged under 18 years in the Liverpool local authority area was 2,130 and in the Merseyside metropolitan area was 5,070.
§ Mr. Parryasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the latest level of unemployment on Merseyside at the latest date.
§ Mr. LeeThe following information is in the Library. On 14 May 1987 the number of unemployed claimants in the Merseyside metropolitan area was 128,167.
§ Mr. Parryasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the level of youth unemployment in England and Wales at the latest date.
§ Mr. LeeThe following information is in the Library. On 9 April 1987, the latest date for which an analysis of unemployment by age is available, the number of unemployed claimants aged under 18 years in England was 93,324 and Wales was 6,348.