§ Dr. David ClarkTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many were employed in the(a) agricultural industry, (b) coal mining industry, (c) shipbuilding and ship repair industries and (d) steel industry as at June 1990.
Mr. JacksonInformation is given is the table.
Employees in employment industries (SIC 1980): Great Britain Thousands June 1990 Agriculture and horticulture (Class 01) 260.2 Coal extraction and solid fuels (Group 111) 85.5 Iron and steel (Group 221) 25.3 Shipbuilding and ship repairing (Group 361) 41.2
§ Ms. RichardsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing the numbers and rate of unemployment in Great Britain and the United Kingdom using(a) the International Labour Office definition and (b) the claimant count in each year since 1974.
Mr. Jackson[holding answer 20 November 1990]: The information requested is contained in the following table. Levels of unemployment based on the International Labour Office definition are not available before 1984.
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Standardised unemployment rates in selected OECD countries Annual Data 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Canada 5.3 6.9 7.1 8.0 8.3 7.4 7.4 7.5 10.9 11.8 11.2 10.4 9.5 8.8 7.7 7.5 United States 5.5 8.3 7.6 6.9 6.0 5.8 7.0 7.5 9.5 9.5 7.4 7.1 6.9 6.1 5.4 5.2 Japan 1.4 1.9 2.0 2.0 2.2 2.1 2.0 2.2 2.4 2.6 2.7 2.6 2.8 2.8 2.5 2.3 Australia 2.6 4.8 4.7 5.6 26.2 6.2 6.0 5.7 7.1 9.9 8.9 8.2 8.0 8.0 7.2 6.1 New Zealand1 — — — — — — — — — — — — 3.9 4.0 5.6 7.1 Belgium3 3.0 5.0 6.4 7.4 7.9 8.2 8.8 10.8 12.6 12.1 12.1 11.3 11.2 11.0 9.7 8.1 Finland 1.7 2.2 3.8 5.8 7.2 5.9 4.6 4.8 5.3 5.4 5.2 5.0 5.3 5.0 4.5 3.4 France 2.8 4.0 4.4 4.9 5.2 5.9 6.3 7.4 8.1 8.3 9.7 10.2 10.4 10.5 10.0 9.6 Germany (Federal Republic) 21.6 23.6 23.7 23.6 23.5 23.2 3.0 4.4 6.1 8.0 7.1 7.2 6.4 6.2 6.1 5.5
Thousands 1 Total claimant count (annual average unemployment) (seasonally adjusted) Total ILO unemployed2 (spring each year) Year Level Rate Level Rate United Kingdom 1974 518.3 2.0 — — 1975 796.2 3.1 — — 1976 1,091.3 4.2 — — 1977 1,160.8 4.4 — — 1978 1,144.0 4.3 — — 1979 1,074.3 4.0 — — 1980 1,364.4 5.1 — — 1981 2,172.2 8.1 — — 1982 2,544.9 9.5 — — 1983 2,788.0 10.5 — — 1984 2,916.3 10.7 3,206.0 11.8 1985 3,027.9 10.9 3,0740 11.2 1986 3,097.9 11.1 3,073.0 11.2 1987 2,806.5 10.0 2,979.0 10.7 1988 2,274.9 8.1 2,469.0 8.8 31989 1,784.4 6.3 2,063.0 7.2 Great Britain 1974 492.5 2.0 — — 1975 761.6 3.0 — — 1976 1,046.2 4.. — — 1977 1,111.5 4.3 — — 1978 1,091.0 4.2 — — 1979 1,021.4 3.9 — — 1980 1,301.1 5.0 — — 1981 2,086.3 8.0 — — 1982 2,447.8 9.4 — — 1983 2,681.3 10.3 — — 1984 2,806.1 10.6 3,094.0 11.7 1985 2,915.2 10.8 2,968.0 11.1 1986 2,975.3 11.0 2,969.0 11.1 1987 2,684.4 9.8 2,879.0 10.6 1988 2,161.7 7.8 2,376.6 8.7 31989 1,678.8 6.0 1,978.0 7.1 1 The seasonally adjusted series has been revised in November 1990 to allow for the changes in conditions of the Redundant Mineworkers Payment Scheme, effective from July 1989. The seasonally adjusted series takes into account changes in the unemployment count consistent with the current definition of unemployment to make assessment of trends over time possible. 2 ILO definition levels of unemployment for United Kingdom and Great Britain only available from 1984. 3 Preliminary estimates only 1989.
§ Ms. RichardsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing the rates of unemployment in each country in the OECD using the International Labour Office definition in each year since 1974.
Mr. JacksonFollowing is the information for all the OECD countries for which standardised unemployment rates are available. The table is taken from the OECD publication "Quarterly Labour Force Statistics". OECD figures provide the nearest comparable data to the ILO definition.
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1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Ireland — — — — — — — — — 13.7 15.4 16.8 17.1 16.9 16.3 215.7 Italy 5.3 5.8 6.6 7.0 7.1 7.6 7.5 7.8 8.4 8.8 9.4 9.6 10.5 10.9 11.0 10.9 Netherlands 22.7 5.2 5.5 5.3 5.3 5.4 6.0 8.5 11.4 12.0 11.8 10.6 9.9 9.6 9.2 8.3 Norway 1.5 2.3 1.7 1.4 1.8 2.0 1.6 2.0 2.6 3.4 3.1 2.6 2.0 2.1 3.2 4.9 Portugal — — — — — — — — — 7.9 8.4 8.5 8.5 7.0 5.7 5.0 Spain 2.6 3.6 4.6 5.2 6.9 8.5 11.2 13.9 15.8 17.2 20.0 21.4 21.0 20.1 19.1 16.9 Sweden 2.0 1.6 1.6 1.8 2.2 2.1 2.0 2.5 3.2 3.5 3.1 2.8 2.7 1.9 1.6 1.4 United Kingdom 2.9 4.3 5.6 26.0 25.9 25.0 26.4 29.8 2ll.3 212.4 11.7 11.2 11.2 10.3 8.5 26.9 OECD Total 23.5 5.2 5.3 25.3 25.2 25.1 5.8 6.7 28.1 8.6 8.0 7.8 7.7 7.3 6.7 26.2 1 The data are not seasonally adjusted. 2 Secretariat estimates (or preliminary-figures). 3 Revised series.