§ Mr. HaywardTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment in which 20 parliamentary constituencies the largest percentage fall in unemployment occurred in the last 12 months.
§ Mr. Nicholls[pursuant to his reply, 12 January, c. 783]: I regret that the information given in my reply of 12 January was incorrect due to problems caused by a mistake in operating the computer system from which the data were extracted. The correct information is contained in the following table. The figures are not seasonally adjusted.
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Percentage change in the number of unemployed over the year to November 1989 Constituency name per cent. Montgomery -48.7 Westmorland and Lonsdale -45.0 South Derbyshire -40.3 Harrow West -40.2 Amber Valley -39.8 Newcastle-under-Lyme -39.3 North Wiltshire -39.2 Stoke-on-Trent North -39.2 Stratford-on-Avon -38.7 Harrow East -38.5 Old Bexley and Sidcup -38.5 Devizes -38.3 Ceredigion and Pembroke North -38.1 Kincardine and Deeside -37.9 South Worcestershire -37.5 West Hertfordshire -37.5 Hornchurch -37.5 Grantham -37.5
Constituency name per cent. Wyre Forest -37.3 Mid-Staffordshire -37.2