HC Deb 02 February 1988 vol 126 c560W
93. Mr. Ashby

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the decline in unemployment in Leicester in 1987.

Mr. Lee

On 10 December 1987, the number of unemployed claimants in the Leicester local authority area was 15,378—a fall of 3,519 since December 1986.