asked the Secretary of State for Industry on what basis he estimated that male unemployment in Kirkby is some 9·5 per cent. in view of the fact that Kirkby does not constitute a travel-to-work area for the purpose of such calculations.

The figure of 9·5 per cent. given in the Government's announcement of 1st November was the latest available figure for male unemployment in the Liverpool travel-to-work area at that time.