HC Deb 29 April 1994 vol 242 c375W
Mr. David Nicholson

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give for(a) the Taunton travel-to-work area, (b) Somerset (c) the south-west region and (d) the United Kingdom the total numbers of (i) males and (ii) females unemployed for (1) May 1979, (2) June 1983, (3) August 1986, (4) June 1987, (5) March 1991, (6) March 1992, (7) March 1993 and (8) March 1994.

Miss Widdecombe

Seasonally adjusted clamant unemployment figures are available regionally from April 1974. For travel-to-work areas and counties, only unadjusted unemployment figures are available and these go back to June 1983. All this data can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the Library.