HC Deb 01 March 1993 vol 220 c55W
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish the percentage of those that have been unemployed for 26 weeks or longer in each Welsh county in January of each year since 1984.

Mr. David Hunt

Unemployment data can be accessed from the NOMIS database by House of Commons Library staff.

Average gross weekly earnings of full-time employees1 as a percentage of the Great Britain average
1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992
Clwyd 95.1 93.0 94.0 89.7 89.8 90.0 88.9 89.2
Dyfed2 89.9 86.7 86.8 83.0 85.5 83.7 83.0 82.3
Gwent 93.2 92.3 92.9 90.5 88.5 86.1 88.0 86.5
Gwynedd 92.8 89.0 88.3 85.8 89.8 85.7 86.5 85.2
Mid Glamorgan 91.2 90.7 91.5 90.9 91.8 88.5 87.8 88.9
Powys 88.4 86.8 85.8 83.4 86.0 79.9 79.7 82.6
South Glamorgan 97.2 96.7 94.4 93.0 93.6 93.2 93.2 92.6
West Glamorgan3 95.1 92.8 93.6 91.4 89.0 87.6 89.1 92.3
Wales 93.8 92.2 92.2 89.9 90.1 88.2 88.6 88.9
1 Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence.
2 Excluding Llanelli.
3 Including Llanelli.

Source: New Earnings Survey.