HC Deb 20 February 1989 vol 147 cc455-60W
Mr. Alton

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the numbers of people unemployed for more than five years in each of the travel-to-work areas.

Mr. Lee

The following information is also in the Library. The table shows the number of unemployed claimants who had been unemployed for more than five years in October 1988, the latest available date, for each of the travel-to-work areas in Great Britain.

Number of claimants unemployed for more than five years in each travel-to-work area in Great Britain
Travel-to-work area Number of unemployed claimants
Andover 57
Ashford 196
Aylesbury and Wycombe 270
Banbury 148
Basingstoke and Alton 156
Travel-to-work area Number of unemployed claimants
Bedford 231
Bicester 34
Brighton 1,184
Canterbury 171
Chelmsford and Braintree 229
Chichester 120
Clacton 202
Colchester 332
Crawley 200
Dover and Deal 155
Eastbourne 200
Folkestone 213
Gosport and Fareham 234
Guildford and Aldershot 335
Harwich 69
Hastings 277
Hertford and Harlow 632
Hitchin and Letchworth 193
Isle of Wight 330
Medway and Maidstone 1,282
Milton Keynes 308
Newbury 46
Oxford 525
Portsmouth 1,151
Reading 297
Sittingbourne and Sheerness 349
Slough 390
Southampton 1,064
Southend 1,705
Thanet 420
Tunbridge Wells 195
Watford and Luton 1,245
Winchester and Eastleigh 122
Worthing 234
Beetles and Halesworth 72
Bury St. Edmonds 63
Cambridge 259
Cromer and North Walsham 107
Diss 49
Fakenham 58
Great Yarmouth 396
Haverhill 37
Huntingdon and St. Neots 113
Ipswich 474
King's Lynn and Hunstanton 340
Lowestoft 241
Newmarket 112
Norwich 876
Peterborough 590
Sudbury 59
Thetford 124
Wisbech 182
Woodbridge and Leiston 71
Heathrow 1,744
London 23,676
Barnstaple and Ilfracombe 149
Bath 299
Bideford 75
Blandford 21
Bodmin and Liskeard 133
Bournemouth 480
Bridgwater 188
Bridport 30
Bristol 2,056
Bude 43
Chard 41
Cheltenham 274
Chippenham 99
Cinderford and Ross on Wye 248
Cirencester 47
Dartmouth and Kingsbridge 38
Devizes 30
Dorchester and Weymouth 120
Exeter 398
Falmouth 109
Gloucester 413

Travel-to-work area Number of unemployed claimants
Helston 85
Honiton and Axminster 78
Launceston 49
Minehead 42
Newquay 30
Newton Abbot 109
Okehampton 25
Penzance and St. Ives 142
Plymouth 1,208
Poole 207
Redruth and Camborne 291
Salisbury 141
Shaftesbury 51
South Molton 18
St. Austell 157
Stroud 182
Swindon 478
Taunton 211
Tiverton 55
Torbay 330
Torrington 30
Totnes 32
Trowbridge and Frome 186
Truro 114
Wareham and Swanage 27
Warminster 20
Wells 104
Weston super Mare 254
Yeovil 152
Birmingham 12,398
Burton-on-Trent 374
Coventry and Hinckley 3,412
Dudley and Sandwell 5,458
Evesham 105
Hereford and Leominster 316
Kidderminster 390
Leek 47
Ludlow 87
Malvern and Ledbury 129
Oswestry 80
Rugby and Daventry 235
Shrewsbury 291
Stafford 287
Stoke 1,700
Telford and Bridgnorth 1,066
Uttoxeter and Ashbourne 55
Walsall 2,718
Warwick 386
Whitchurch and Market Drayton 119
Wolverhampton 2,895
Worcester 457
Alfreton and Ashfield 435
Boston 164
Buxton 87
Chesterfield 1,010
Corby 216
Derby 1,494
Gainsborough 127
Grantham 143
Horncastle and Market Rasen 75
Kettering and Market Harborough 160
Leicester 1,806
Lincoln 683
Loughborough and Coalville 226
Louth and Mablethorpe 89
Mansfield 533
Matlock 68
Melton Mowbray 86
Newark 220
Northampton 465
Nottingham 3,802
Retford 155
Skegness 87
Sleaford 70

Travel-to-work area Number of unemployed claimants
Spalding and Holbeach 104
Stamford 69
Wellingborough and Rushden 189
Worksop 311
Barnsley 1,274
Bradford 2,548
Bridlington and Driffield 131
Calderdale 612
Castleford and Pontefract 591
Doncaster 1,626
Goole and Selby 202
Grimsby 902
Harrogate 103
Huddersfield 548
Hull 3,135
Keighley 148
Leeds 2,872
Malton 25
Northallerton 48
Pickering and Helmsley 19
Richmondshire 52
Ripon 23
Rotherham and Mexborough 1,978
Scarborough and Filey 162
Scunthorpe 594
Settle 18
Sheffield 4,692
Skipton 36
Thirsk 18
Wakefield and Dewsbury 1,044
Whitby 82
York 459
Accrington and Rossendale 316
Blackburn 622
Blackpool 876
Bolton and Bury 1,982
Burnley 429
Clitheroe 31
Crewe 332
Lancaster and Morecambe 358
Liverpool 14,312
Macclesfield 170
Manchester 9,176
Northwich 363
Oldham 805
Pendle 198
Preston 1,153
Rochdale 679
Warrington 605
Widnes and Runcorn 1,049
Wigan and St. Helens 3,683
Wirral and Chester 3,661
Barrow in Furness 261
Carlisle 372
Kendal 41
Keswick 22
Penrith 52
Whitehaven 268
Windermere 7
Workington 411
Alnwick and Amble 108
Berwick-on-Tweed 42
Bishop Auckland 651
Darlington 519
Durham 643
Hartlepool 965
Hexham 66
Middlesbrough 3,628
Morpeth and Ashington 585
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 6,654
South Tyneside 1,411
Stockton-on-Tees 1,661
Sunderland 4,173
Aberdare 372
Aberystwyth 47
Bangor and Caernarfon 421

Travel-to-work area Number of unemployed claimants
Blaenau Gwent and Abergavenny 646
Brecon 39
Bridgend 539
Cardiff 2,413
Cardigan 73
Carmarthen 88
Conwy and Colwyn 147
Denbigh 56
Dolgellau and Barmouth 35
Fishguard 41
Haverfordwest 247
Holyhead 333
Lampeter and Aberaeron 47
Llandeilo 22
Llandrindod Wells 32
Llanelli 350
Machynlleth 15
Merthyr and Rhymney 804
Monmouth 59
Neath and Port Talbot 352
Newport 994
Newtown 38
Pontypool and Cwmbran 466
Pontypridd and Rhondda 1,008
Porthmadoc and Ffestiniog 38
Pwllheli 48
Shotton Flint and Rhyl 761
South Pembrokeshire 114
Swansea 1,434
Welshpool 32
Wrexham 549
Aberdeen 522
Alloa 291
Annan 72
Arbroath 86
Ayr 572
Badenoch 27
Banff 69
Bathgate 600
Berwickshire 29
Blairgowrie and Pitlochry 73
Brechin and Montrose 78
Buckie 34
Campbel town 86
Crieff 16
Cumnock and Sanquhar 502
Dumbarton 471
Dumfries 182
Dundee 1,630
Dunfermline 414
Dunoon and Bute 92
Edinburgh 2,335
Elgin 86
Falkirk 709
Forfar 76
Forres 28
Fraserburgh 63
Galashiels 59
Girvan 75
Glasgow 12,713
Greenock 974
Haddington 65
Hawick 44
Huntly 21
Invergordon and Dingwall 142
Inverness 255
Irvine 1,092
Islay/Mid Argyll 36
Keith 35
Kelso and Jedburgh 21
Kilmarnock 479
Lanarkshire 3,145
Lochaber 76
Lockerbie 25
Newton Stewart 48

Travel-to-work area Number of unemployed claimants
North East Fife 103
Oban 53
Orkney Islands 81
Peebles 23
Perth 180
Peterhead 74
Shetland Islands 25
Skye and Wester Ross 53
Stewartry 51
Stirling 300
Stranraer 117
Sutherland 56
Thurso 58
Western Isles 96
Wick 93