asked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the numbers of unemployed juveniles in Merseyside, in the Wirral and in Wallasey respectively.

I regret that the information is not available in the precise form requested, covering all juveniles, because the age analysis due in January 1975 could not be made owing to industrial action at the local office of the Employment Service Agency. However, special counts are made each month of the numbers of school leavers aged under 18 who are unemployed, and the figures for April 1975 for the Merseyside Special Development Area, the Wirral and Wallasey were 2,675, 274 and 89 respectively.