§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people would have been registered as unemployed in January 1979 in(a) York parliamentary constituency, (b) York travel-to-work area, (c) north Yorkshire, (d) Yorkshire and Humberside and (e) Great Britain if the figures had been calculated on the same basis as currently; and what proportion of employees in employment in each case those figures represent.
§ Miss WiddecombeClaimant unemployment figures based on the current coverage of the count are available from the Department's consistent seasonally adjusted series. This series is not available below the level of standard regions.
Seasonally adjusted narrow-based rates of unemploy-ment, showing the claimant unemployed as a percentage of employees in employment plus the unemployed, can be calculated only from 1983 onwards.
The available information for the Yorkshire and Humberside region and for Great Britain is given in the following table:
Seasonally Adjusted claimant unemployment Yorkshire and Humberside Great Britain Date Level (000's) Level (000's) January 1979 94.8 1,047.8
§ Mr. Alex CarlileTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will set out in a table the employment change for each region and for Great Britain as a whole between December 1990 and December 1993 with(a) the percentage change in employees, (b) the percentage change in employees and self-employed together and (c) the total change; and if he will make a statement.
§ Miss Widdecombe[holding answer 14 February 1994]: Due to the amount of information requested, I will write to the hon. Member enclosing a regional breakdown. Information for Great Britain is as follows:
Changes in employment in Great Britain Employees in employment Per cent. Employees and self-employed Per cent. Civilian work force in employment Per cent. December 1990—December 1991 -3.3 -3.5 -3.7 December 1991—December 1992 -2.8 -3.0 -2.9 December 1992—September 1993 +0.3 +0.5 +0.3