§ Mr. CummingsTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many long-term unemployed are registered in the Peterlee and Seaham areas; and what the numbers were year by year since 1987.
Mr. JacksonThe information is available in the Library, and is shown in the table which gives the number of claimants in the Peterlee and Seaham jobcentres areas who were unemployed for at least a year as at January 1987 and each subsequent January.
Date Total Peterlee jobcentre area January 1987 1,454 January 1988 1,326 January 1989 892 January 1990 446 January 1991 331 Seaham jobcentre area January 1987 1,000 January 1988 907 January 1989 758 January 1990 412 January 1991 331