asked the Secretary of State for Employment what is his estimate of the latest level of unemployment in Leicester for skilled and unskilled categories of workers.
I regret that the precise information requested is not available but the following table shows an analysis by occupational group of unemployed people registered at the Leicester employment office at September 1974. They are the latest figures; because of industrial action at local offices of the Employment Service Agency the quarterly analysis due in December is not available:
Unemployed at the Leicester Employment Office: September 1974 | |
Managerial (general management) | 8 |
Professional and related supporting management and administration | 45 |
Professional and related in education, welfare and health | 34 |
Literary, artistic and sports | 28 |
Professional and related in science, engineering, technology and similar fields | 52 |
Managerial (excluding general management) | 69 |
Clerical and related | 420 |
Selling | 96 |
Security and protective service | 7 |
Catering, cleaning, hairdressing and other personal service | 173 |
Farming, fishing and related | 10 |
Materials processing (excluding metal) (hides, textiles, chemicals, food, drink and tobacco, wood, paper and board, rubber and plastics) | 80 |
Making and repairing (excluding metal and electrical) (glass, ceramics, printing, paper products, clothing, footwear, woodworking, rubber and plastics) | 145 |
Processing, making, repairing and related (metal and electrical) (iron, steel and other metals, engineering (including installation and maintenance), vehicles and shipbuilding) | 330 |
Painting, repetitive assembling, product inspecting, packaging and related | 151 |
Construction, mining and related not identified elsewhere | 315 |
Transport operating, materials moving and storing and related | 269 |
Miscellaneous | 2,429 |
Total | 4,661 |
asked the Secretary of State for Employment what is his latest estimate of the number of job vacancies in Leicester for skilled and unskilled workers.
I regret that the precise information requested is not available but the following table shows an analysis by occupational groups of notified unfilled vacancies in Leicester at September 1974. The statistics relate only to vacancies notified to the Leicester employment office and are not a measure of total vacancies. They are the latest figures; because of industrial action at the local offices of the Employment Service Agency the quarterly analysis due in December is not available.
Unfilled vacancies at the Leicester Employment Office: September 1974 | |
Managerial (general management) | 4 |
Professional and related supporting management and administration | 82 |
Professional and related in education, welfare and health | 37 |
Literary, artistic and sports | 7 |
Professional and related in science, engineering, technology and similar fields | 125 |
Managerial (excluding general management) | 55 |
Clerical and related | 349 |
Selling | 110 |
Security and protective service | 151 |
Catering, cleaning, hairdressing and other personal service | 259 |
Farming, fishing and related | 6 |
Materials processing (excluding metal) (hides, textiles, chemicals, food, drink and tobacco, wood, paper and board, rubber and plastics) | 62 |
Making and repairing (excluding metal and electrical) (glass, ceramics, printing, paper products, clothing, footwear, woodworking, rubber and plastics) | 385 |
Processing, making, repairing and related (metal and electrical) (iron, steel and other metals, engineering (including installation and maintenance) vehicles and shipbuilding) | 631 |
Painting, reptitive assembling, product inspecting, packaging and related | 147 |
Construction, mining and related not identified elsewhere | 34 |
Transport operating, materials moving and storing and related | 186 |
Miscellaneous | 198 |
Total | 2,828 |
asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many jobs have been lost in the greater Leicester area since 1972.
Information on the number of jobs lost is not available, but an indication of the net annual change can be obtained by comparing the levels of employment in the mid-year estimates for 1972 and 1973. Figures for mid-1974 are not yet available. In the Leicester employment office area there were 215,200 employees in employment at June 1972 and 221,500 at June 1973.