HC Deb 01 February 1991 vol 184 cc685-6W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table indicating current unemployment levels in each urban development corporation area.

Mr. Jackson

Urban development corporation (UDC) boundaries do not correspond to areas for which unemployment figures are available. Unemployment figures for the travel-to-work areas which include the UDCs, for December 1990, are contained in the following table.

Urban development corporation TTWA Total unemployed 1Rate
London Docklands London 230,694 5.8
Black Country Walsall 12,307 7.3
Wolverhampton 12,994 8.7
Dudley and Sandwell 21,115 7.3
Merseyside Liverpool 63,743 12.6
Tyne and Wear South Tyneside 9,020 15.5

Urban development corporation TTWA Total unemployed 1Rate
Sunderland 20,253 11.0
Teeside Stockton on Tees 8,357 10.7
Hartlepool 5,207 13.3
Middlesbrough 16,147 11.5
Cardiff Bay Cardiff 16,497 7.1
Leeds Leeds 23,325 6.4
Central Manchester Manchester 62,138 7.3
Trafford Park
Sheffield Sheffield 25,609 8.9
Bristol Bristol 20,548 5.5
1 Per cent. of workforce.