HC Deb 07 February 1995 vol 254 c178W
28. Mr. Waterson

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what assessments he has made of the prospects for job creation in East Sussex.

Miss Widdecombe

We believe that the Government have created the right framework for employers to create jobs and reduce unemployment in East Sussex, as in the rest of the United Kingdom.

The latest figures show that in the year to December 1994 claimant unemployment in East Sussex fell by 12 per cent., while the labour force survey indicates that in the year to summer 1994 employment in the area increased by 14,000 to 316,000.

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