§ Mr. SpellerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list those areas in receipt of assisted or development area status, together with their working population.
§ Mr. Leigh1 have been asked to reply.
The following is the information:
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Assisted Area Working Populations (April 1991) Assisted Area Status Travel-to-work Area Workforce South West IA Bodmin and Liskeard 28,793 IA Bude 8,094 IA Cinderford and Ross-on-Wye 30,241 78W
Assisted Area Status Travel-to-work Area Workforce DA Falmouth 14,843 DA Helston 9,247 DA Newquay 12,946 DA Penzance and St. Ives 23,425 IA Plymouth 147,884 DA Redruth and Camborne 24,910 West Midlands IA Birmingham 803,305 IA Coventry and Hinckley 269,332 IA Dudley and Sandwell 299,360 IA Kidderminster 47,174 IA Telford and Bridgnorth 85,166 IA Walsall 172,542 IA Wolverhampton 151,975 East Midlands DA Corby 38,346 IA Gainsborough 14,460 Yorkshire and Humberside IA Barnsley 84,202 IA Bradford 252,381 IA Doncaster 115,628 IA Grimsby 88,763 IA Hull 222,670 DA Rotherham and Mexborough 112,095 DA Scunthorpe 68,932 IA Sheffield 295,726 DA Whitby 10,643 North West IA Accrington and Rossendale 60,224 IA Blackburn 73,490 IA Bolton and Bury 205,719 DA Liverpool 485,553 IA Manchester 823,726 IA Oldham 98,289 IA Rochdale 71,603 DA Widnes and Runcorn 63,752 DA Wigan and St. Helens 192,172 DA Wirral and Chester 229,477 Northern DA Bishop Auckland 46,281 IA Darlington 58,014 IA Durham 69,686 DA Hartlepool 40,488 DA Middlesbrough 140,241 IA Morpeth and Ashington 54,398 DA Newcastle-upon-Tyne 395,649 DA South Tyneside 56,603 DA Stockton-on-Tees 84,814 DA Sunderland 177,886 DA Workington 33,752 Wales DA Aberdare 23,428 IA Bangor and Caernarfon 35,256 DA Blaenau Gwent and Abergavenny 37,587 IA Bridgend 63,515 IA Cardiff 231,791 DA Cardigan 10,727 IA Fishguard 4,577 IA Haverfordwest 23,496 DA Holyhead 21,972 DA Lampeter and Aberaeron 8,254 IA Llanelli 36,218 DA Merthyr and Rhymney 58,740 DA Neath and Port Talbot 45,537 IA Newport 96,088 IA Pontypool and Cwmbran 46,019 DA Pontypridd and Rhondda 72,691 IA Porthmadoc and Ffestiniog 8,844 IA Pwllheli 8,493 DA Shotton, Flint and Rhyl 93,693
Assisted Area Status Travel-to-work Area Workforce DA South Pembrokeshire 16,514 IA Swansea 119,563 DA Wrexham 60,645 Scotland IA Alloa 18,771 DA Arbroath 11,426 IA Ayr 55,447 IA Badenoch 5,623 DA Bathgate 53,122 IA Campbeltown 4,887 DA Cumnock and Sanquhar 15,570 DA Dumbarton 32,472 DA Dundee 100,479 IA Dunfermline 54,846 IA Dunoon and Bute 11,493 IA Falkirk 68,369 IA Forres 3,715 IA Girvan 4,549 DA Glasgow 664,038 DA Greenock 42,758 IA Invergordon and Dingwall 15,320 DA Irvine 60,260 DA Kilmarnock 35,135 IA Kirkcaldy 67,663 DA Lanarkshire 169,659 IA Lochaber 9,714 IA Newton Stewart 4,499 IA Skye and Wester Ross 9,091 IA Stewartry 9,563 IA Stranraer 9,139 IA Sutherland 5,545 IA Western Isles 12,867 IA Wick 5,440 Notes:
(1) The work force estimates are the sum of: estimated employees in employment; the unemployed; the self-employed; the armed forces; participants on work-related schemes.
(2) There are two forms of assisted area status; a more intense form, development area (DA) and a less intense, intermediate area (IA).
(3) The building block for the assisted areas map is the travel-to-work area (TTWA), which is the best approximation available to a self-contained labour market. TTWA boundaries do not always correspond to regional boundaries, so some of the TTWAs are listed above under one region, while in fact belonging to several regions.
(4) Only half of the Manchester TTWA has assisted area status, but the work force reported above relates to the whole TTWA. This is because of the lack of availability of post-census work force data for areas smaller than TTWAs.