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Mrs. Chalker
asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many unemployed persons in the Wirral metropolitan borough have been employed in their most recent jobs by the motor industry, the ship repairing industry, manufacturing industries as a whole, and service industries as a whole, respectively.
Mr. John Fraser
The following table shows the available information. The figures relate to the area covered by the Bebington, Birkenhead, Hoylake and Wallasey Employment Offices. Statistics are compiled for shipbuilding and ship repairing as a whole, but not separately for ship repairing.
| UNEMPLOYED AT 14TH APRIL 1975: EMPLOYMENT OFFICE AREAS IN THE WIRRAL | |
| Industry of the Standard Industrial Classification of which last employed | Number Unemployed |
| All manufacturing industries (Orders III-XIX) of which: | 2,464 |
| Motor vehicle manufacturing (Minimum List Heading 381) | 240 |
| Shipbuilding and ship repairing (Minimum List Heading 370.1) | 378 |
| Service industries (Orders XXII-XXVII) | 3,618 |