§ Mr. John Evansasked the Paymaster General if he will give (a) the number of people in receipt of unemployment benefits in St. Helens, North, (b) the number of people who have been unemployed for over 12 months in St. Helens, North and (c) the number of people in each of the employment and training schemes in the St. Helens, North constituency, at the latest available date.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeOn 8 January 1987 the number of unemployed claimants in the St. Helens, North parliamentary constituency was 6,792, of whom 3,282 had been unemployed for more than 12 months.
It is not possible to give precise numbers of people in the employment, training and enterprise measures run by my Department and the Manpower Services Commission in the St. Helens, North constituency because of the various bases on which local information is collected. The numbers of people participating in these measures in the St. Helens area at the latest available date were given in a reply to the hon. Member for St. Helens, South (Mr. Bermingham) on 26 February 1987 at column 337.