§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people in the Doncaster area have been unemployed for more than two years; and what percentage of the unemployed in Doncaster this represents.
§ Miss WiddecombeIn the Doncaster travel-to-work area the number of people who had been claimant unemployed for over two years in January 1994 was 3,436 or 22.3 per cent. of the total number of unemployed claimants in the area. These figures are on the unadjusted basis.
§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were placed into employment by jobcentres in the Doncaster area in each month since April 1992; and what percentage of the unemployed in the Doncaster area this represents.
§ Miss Widdecombe[pursuant to her reply, 17 March 1994]: I regret that due to a printing error, part of my original reply of 17 March 1994, Official Report, column 809, related to census of employment figures rather than the claimant unemployment figures for the Doncaster area. The correct reply follows:
Information on monthly jobcentre placings and monthly claimant unemployment levels can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the Library. However, it is not meaningful to compare flow figures—placings—with stock figures—unemployment levels.
Moreover, jobcentre placements represent only a quarter of all placings made nationally, and this proportion is likely to vary between different regions, different skills and different occupations. Furthermore, within any one area, there is not necessarily a strong match between the skills of the unemployed and the nature of the vacancies available.
During 1993, jobcentres in the Doncaster area placed more than 400 people into employment each month.