§ Mr. AmessTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the unemployment figures for each constituency in Scotland for each of the last three years; and if he will express the figures as a percentage of the previous year.
§ Mr. LangThe information requested is set out in the table.
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Constituency December 1986 As percentage of December 1985 December 1987 As percentage of December 1986 December 1988 As percentage of December 1987 Gordon 3,365 160.2 2,595 77.1 1,795 69.2 Greenock and Port Glasgow 8,612 98.2 7,835 910 6,427 820 Hamilton 6,566 104.4 5,680 86.5 4,298 75.7 Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber 6,967 106.9 6,026 86.5 4,998 82.9 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 5,579 98.5 5,032 90.2 4,191 83.3 Kincardine and Deeside 3,143 1685 2,483 790 1,825 73.5 Kirkcaldy 5,074 103.5 4,628 91.2 3,882 82.8 Linlithgow 5,716 973 4,580 801 3,443 75.2 Livingston 5,236 99.4 4,412 84.3 3,255 73.8 Midlothian 4,495 1021 4,146 92.2 3,364 811 Monklands East 6,283 105 5 5,450 86.7 4,320 79.3 Monklands West 5,050 103.3 4,519 89.5 3,495 77.3 Moray 4,258 1071 3,663 860 3,159 86.2 Motherwell North 6,597 103.6 5,545 841 4,373 78.9 Motherwell South 5,432 100 1 4,571 841 3,853 84.3 North East Fife 2,707 1025 2,450 90.5 1,914 78.1 North Tayside 3,305 110 1 2,796 84.6 2,098 750 Orkney and Shetland 1,849 1163 1,583 85.6 1,355 85.6 Paisley North 5,424 97.8 5,095 93.9 4,097 80.4 Paisley South 5,451 97.7 4,787 87.8 3,944 82.4 Perth and Kinross 4,246 1100 3,507 826 2,724 77.7 Renfrew West and Inverclyde 3,764 100.5 3,407 90.5 2,563 75.2 Ross, Cromarty and Skye 5,275 104.3 4,994 94.7 3,948 791 Roxburgh and Berwickshire 2,038 105.8 1,799 88.3 1,350 750 Stirling 4,073 96.8 3,614 88.7 2,875 79.6 Strathkelvin and Bearsden 3,661 98.7 3,183 86.9 2,492 78.3 Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale 1859 1071 1,499 80.6 1,268 84.6 Western Isles 2,354 127.8 2,093 88.9 2,157 1031 Due to changes which have taken place in the compilation of the statistics during the period these figures are not directly comparable.