§ 30. Mr. FabricantTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what forecast he has made of the level of employment in the Greenwich travel to work area in January 2001 [138392]
§ Ms JowellThe Department for Education and Employment does not forecast the future level of employment at either national or local level.
There is no Greenwich travel to work area, but in the London borough of Greenwich, in October 2000, there were 6,236 unemployed claimants, an unemployment rate of 7.5 per cent., compared with the overall UK unemployment rate of 3.6 per cent.
Over the last 12 months, however, unemployment in Greenwich has fallen by 1,173, or 16 per cent., against a national fall over the same period of 13 per cent.