§ Mr. BarnesTo 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 HowarthResponsibility 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.
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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
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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)