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10. Mr. Mans

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what specific measures she is taking to help the long-term unemployed.

Mrs. Gillian Shephard

I am determined to provide the best possible range of help and advice for long-term unemployed people. I keep our comprehensive package of employment and training measures under review to ensure that they continue to offer the most practical and effective help in getting back to work.

27. Mr. Trimble

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the current level of unemployment; and if she will make a statement.

Mrs. Gillian Shephard

Compared with the previous month, there was a welcome slow-down in May in the increase in seasonally adjusted claimant unemployment, which for the United Kingdom stood at 2,716,600.

22. Mr. Gapes

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what measures she has planned to reduce unemployment in Ilford, South.

Mr. McLoughlin

The employment service and training and enterprise councils deliver a wide range of employment, enterprise and training programmes to help unemployed people find the best and quickest route back to employment. In Ilford, South, as elsewhere. these programmes are tailored to take account of special local circumstances.

18. Ms. Quin

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if she will make a statement about the level of unemployment in the northern region.

Mr. McLoughlin

In May 1992 seasonally adjusted claimant unemployment in the northern region was 153,800.

Mr. Wicks

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if she will publish a table showing unemployment rates by ethnic origin in Greater London on the same basis as the answer on 13 November 1990,Official Report, column 123, to the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms. Harman).

Mr. McLoughlin

The information requested is as follows:

Unemployment rates by ethnic origin in Greater London aged 16 and over Spring 1991
per cent.
All persons1 9
White 8
Non-white 14
West Indian/Guyanese 15
Indian 12
Pakistan/Bangladeshi 18
other ethnic origins2 15

SourceLabour force survey.

1 Includes those who did not state origin.

2 Includes those of mixed origin.