Wales

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of notified vacancies in Wales in December, 1970, and December, 1971, respectively; and what proportion of these vacancies were, for nurses, postmen, coalminers, transport industries, and local government manual workers, respectively.

Following is the available information:The statistics relate only to notified vacancies remaining unfilled and do not purport to measure the total unsatisfied demand for labour.

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a list of the numbers of persons notified as being redundant in Wales, by industry groups, in the past 12 months.

Redundancies involving the following numbers of work-people have been recorded by my Department as due to occur in Wales in the main industrial groups during the year. 1st February, 1971, to 31st January, 1972.

Iron and Steel	4,190
Other Metal Manufacture	1,490
Mechanical Engineering	1,960
Electrical Engineering	1,570
Other Metal Goods	1,310
Chemicals and Allied Industries	650
Textiles	840
Aerospace Equipment	660
Other Manufacturing	3,250
Coalmining	110
Construction	560
Other Industries and Services	1,120
TOTAL	17,680

TOTAL NUMBERS REGISTERED AS UNEMPLOYED, NUMBERS REGISTERED AS WHOLLY UNEMPLOYED AND NOTIFIED VACANCIES REMAINING UNFILLED, IN WALES
	January, 1971			January, 1972
Order	Total registered unemployed	Registered wholly unemployed	Unfilled vacancies	Total registered unemployed	Registered wholly unemployed	Unfilled vacancies
Agriculture, forestry, fishing	965	930	161	1,067	1,046	80
Mining and quarrying	2,866	2,852	1,253	2,524	2,491	590
Food, drink and tobacco	895	894	103	1,170	1,170	87
Coal and petroleum products	103	103	5	123	123	5
Chemicals and allied industries	501	501	130	702	702	79
Metal manufacture	1,689	1,689	153	3,630	3,540	55
Mechanical engineering	1,055	1,053	283	1,803	1,743	117
Instrument engineering	122	122	28	144	144	22
Electrical engineering	735	735	194	1,145	1,142	138
Shipbuilding and marine engineering	232	232	20	283	283	16
Vehicles	505	505	63	873	858	92
Metal goods not elsewhere specified	870	868	200	1,308	1,292	122
Textiles	508	508	71	867	854	83
Leather, leather goods and fur	79	74	19	90	88	8
Clothing and footwear	505	505	367	635	630	209
Bricks, pottery, glass, cement, etc.	494	494	66	584	574	50
Timber, furniture, etc.	372	371	74	492	491	56
Paper, printing and publishing	350	350	68	514	514	59
Other manufacturing industries	845	819	76	1,026	1,012	78
Construction	9,615	9,559	483	13,156	13,052	511
Gas, electricity and water	524	524	48	779	779	40
Transport and communication	2,376	2,370	242	2,974	2,891	109
Distributive trades	3,785	3,780	894	4,703	4,703	761
Insurance, banking, finance and business services	762	762	210	803	803	166
Professional and scientific services	1,197	1,196	689	1,488	1,488	487
Miscellaneous services	3,878	3,871	1,030	4,896	4,893	852
Public administration and defence	1,900	1,899	177	2,355	2,355	146
Persons not classified by industry	4,538	4,538	—	6,055	6,055	—
Total	42,266	42,104	7,107	56,216	55,716	5,018

NOTES:

(1) These figures which are provisional take account of all belated notifications and amendments received up to and including 31st January, 1972.

(2) Since the figures have been rounded independently the total does not equal the sum of the components.

asked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) if he will publish a list of the numbers of persons unemployed in Wales, by industry groups, and the corresponding list for a year ago;(2) if he will publish a list of the numbers of unfilled vacancies in Wales, by industry groups, and the corresponding list for a year ago.

Following is the information:

Volume 831: debated on Monday 14 February 1972