HC Deb 24 July 1998 vol 316 cc715-7W
Mr. Barnes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many(a) claimants were registered and (b) full-time equivalent staff were employed at each job centre in the East Midlands and Eastern Region of the Employment Service at the latest available date. [51841]

Mr. Alan Howarth

Responsibility for the subject of the question has been delegated to the Employment Service agency under its Chief Executive. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.

Letter from Leigh Lewis to Mr. Harry Barnes, dated July 1998: As the Employment Service is an Executive Agency, the Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your questions concerning Jobcentre staffing and client volumes in the Employment Service East Midlands and Eastern Region. This is something which falls within the responsibilities delegated to me as Chief Executive of the Agency. You requested a full list of Jobcentres in the East Midlands and Eastern Region detailing the number of full-time equivalent staff employed and jobseekers registered. The details are attached at Appendix A for your information. Jobcentres are resourced according to labour market conditions. In particular, the East Midlands and Eastern Region contains very diverse labour markets from rural and geographically isolated ones to industrialised conurbations. Offices with a very small register size geographically serve also isolated outlying villages where it would be very difficult for clients to visit alternative Jobcentre sites in larger centres of population. I hope this is helpful. Alan Read, Deputy Regional Director for the Employment Service, East Midlands and Eastern Region, would be happy to discuss any of the details further.

Employment Service—East Midlands and Eastern Region
Jobcentre claimants Number of full time equivalent ES staff employed June 1998 1Unemployed registered June 1998
Alfreton 26.8 1,201
Arnold 19.4 1,370
Bakewell 4.5 77
Beccles 17.0 924
Beeston 15.4 812
Belper 14.0 432
Bolsover 7.6 377
Boston 23.8 740
Bulwell 39.7 3,191
Bury St. Edmunds 22.1 868
Buxton 12.2 138
Cambridge 51.3 2,834
Chesterfield 41.7 2,807
Clay Cross 13.0 645
Coalville 17.4 893
Corby 26.1 1,061
Cromer 13.7 533
Daventry 12.5 424

Employment Service—East Midlands and Eastern Region
Jobcentre claimants Number of full time equivalent ES staff employed June 1998 1Unemployed registered June 1998
Derby Wardwick 45.3 1,730
Derby Normanton 38.1 2,643
Derby St. Peters 36.7 2,342
Dereham 17.3 708
Diss 15.2 597
Downham Market 5.0 334
Dronfield 8.0 318
Eckington 9.2 447
Ely 7.9 518
Fakenham 10.0 455
Felixstowe 12.4 512
Gainsborough 16.9 903
Grantham 20.9 954
Great Yarmouth 63.5 3,095
Haverhill 12.3 520
Heanor 22.9 942
Hinckley 18.5 811
Horncastle 8.2 252
Hucknall 16.0 771
Huntingdon 19.7 854
Hunstanton 3.8 263
Ilkeston 20.7 987
Ipswich 58.4 3,535
Kettering 23.0 1,042
Kings Lynn 30.5 1,475
Leicester Highcross Street 34.4 2,548
Leicester Charles Street 42.5 1,695
Leicester Aquis Street 39.2 2,573
Leiston 8.0 250
Lincoln High Street 29.7 1,264
Lincoln Crown House 44.0 2,629
Long Eaton 24.9 1,079
Loughborough 27.3 1,701
Louth 13.1 624
Lowestoft 39.6 2,572
Lutterworth 3.2 81
Mablethorpe 10.7 333
Mansfield Stockwell Gate 22.6 1,297
Mansfield Byron House 31.8 2,157
March 12.5 471
Market Harborough 8.4 248
Matlock 9.8 443
Melton Mowbray 10.2 364
Mildenhall 7.0 249
Netherfield 15.7 888
Newark 21.0 1,056
Newmarket 8.4 449
Northampton 66.2 3,726
North Walsham 13.0 526
Norwich Kiln House 106.2 5,971
Nottingham Castle Boulevard 59.3 4,509
Nottingham Watercourt 63.1 4,490
Oakham 4.2 110
Peterborough 63.7 3,237
Retford 16.6 914
Rushden 12.6 529
Shirebrook 9.6 449
Skegness 19.4 504
Sleaford 10.1 362
Spalding 13.4 614
Stamford 12.8 393
Staveley 14.2 719
St. Neots 10.2 544
Stowmarket 10.5 358
Sudbury 13.4 701
Sutton in Ashfield 33.1 1,914
Swadlincote 17.5 805
Swaffham 7.8 298
Thetford 11.4 548

Employment Service—East Midlands and Eastern Region
Jobcentre claimants Number of full time equivalent ES staff employed June 1998 1Unemployed registered June 1998
Towcester 5.4 192
Wellingborough 24.9 1,071
Wigston 16.0 817
Wisbech 19.2 1,136
Woodbridge 11.6 352
Worksop 30.1 1,692
Wymondham 11.4 409
Source:
1Claimant count figures—Office for National Statistics (NOMIS)