HC Deb 02 December 1996 vol 286 cc536-7W
27. Mr. Roy Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the figure for male unemployment in(a) Newport and (b) Wales for the latest available date; and what is this figure expressed in percentage terms. [5235]

Mr. Jonathan Evans

In October 1996, the unadjusted number of males on the claimant unemployment count in the Newport travel-to-work-area was 5,087, 9.4 per cent. of the male work force. The corresponding figures for Wales were 74,279 and 10.5 per cent.