HC Deb 22 January 1990 vol 165 cc519-21W
Mr. Dunn

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in theOfficial Report those travel-to-work areas which have an unemployment rate of 4 per cent. and less.

Mr. Nicholls

The information is available from the Library and is contained in the following table.

Unemployed claimants as a percentage of the total workforce December 1989 (Not seasonally adjusted)
Travel-to-work areas Percentage rate
Crawley 1.2
Winchester and Eastleigh 1.4
Tunbridge Wells 1.4
Newbury 1.6
Andover 1.6
Aylesbury and Wycombe 1.6
Guildford and Aldershot 1.6
Blandford 1.7
Cirencester 1.7
Basingstoke and Alton 1.7
Bury St. Edmonds 1.7
Reading 1.8
Cambridge 1.8
Bicester 1.9
Kendal 1.9
Clitheroe 2.0
Evesham 2.0
Woodbridge and Leiston 2.0
Oxford 2.0
Chichester 2.0
Windermere 2.0
Slough 2.1
Settle 2.1
Penrith 2.2
Devizes 2.3
Welshpool 2.3
Skipton 2.3
Harrogate 2.3
Chippenham 2.4
Chelmsford and Braintree 2.4
Kettering and Market Harborough 2.4
Hertford and Harlow 2.4
Worthing 2.4
Milton Keynes 2.5
Heathrow 2.5
Warwick 2.5
Malton 2.6
Watford and Luton 2.6
Bedford 2.6
Ripon 2.6
Leek 2.6
Northallerton 2.6
Pickering and Helmsley 2.6
Haverhill 2.6
Northampton 2.7
Shaftesbury 2.7
Hitchin and Letchworth 2.7
Cheltenham 2.7
Newtown 2.8
Wellingborough and Rushden 2.8
Salisbury 2.8
Macclesfield 2.8
Newmarket 2.8
Diss 2.8
Wareham and Swanage 2.8
Eastbourne 2.8
Chard 2.8
Stamford 2.8
Stafford 2.9
Trowbridge and Frome 2.9
Swindon 2.9
Ipswich 2.9
Huntingdon and St. Neots 2.9
Banbury 2.9
Melton Mowbray 3.0
Brecon 3.0
Matlock 3.0
South Molton 3.0
Stroud 3.0
Uttoxeter and Ashbourne 3.0
Rugby and Daventry 3.1
Ludlow 3.1
Pools 3.1
Honiton and Axminster 3.1

Travel-to-work areas Percentage rate
Yeovil 3.1
Spalding and Holbeach 3.1
Wells 3.2
Taunton 3.2
Colchester 3.2
Aberdeen 3.2
Shetland Islands 3.2
Bath 3.3
Shrewsbury 3.3
Warminster 3.3
Ashford 3.3
Malvern and Ledbury 3.3
Exeter 3.3
Beccles and Halesworth 3.4
Sudbury 3.4
Gloucester 3.4
Loughborough and Coalville 3.4
Worcester 3.4
Carmarthen 3.5
Buxton 3.5
Sleaford 3.5
Bridport 3.5
Kidderminster 3.5
Grantham 3.5
Okehampton 3.6
Tiverton 3.6
Hexham 3.6
Whitchurch and Market Drayton 3.6
Galashiels 3.6
Fakenham 3.6
Hereford and Leominster 3.7
Torrington 3.7
Norwich 3.7
Medway and Maidstone 3.8
Thirsk 3.8
Llandrindod Wells 3.8
Llandeilo 3.8
Thetford 3.9
Gosport and Fareham 3.9
Richmondshire 3.9
Stoke 4.0
Bournemouth 4.0
Newton Abbot 4.0

Mr. Wigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many travel-to-work areas in(a) England and (b) south-east England has an unemployment rate of (i) over 10 per cent., (ii) between 5 and 10 per cent. and (iii) below 5 per cent. in October, November and December 1989.

Mr. Nicholls

The information is available from the Library, and is contained in the following table.

Numbers of travel-to-work areas, categorised by unemployment rate1
South-East below 5 per cent. 5-10 per cent. over 10 per cent.
October 33 6 0
November 33 6 0
December 33 6 0
England
October 147 73 8
November 146 74 8
December 140 79 9
1 Work force rates, not seasonally adjusted