asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a

				Unemployed		Notified unfilled vacancies
						Employment Offices		Careers Offices
				Males	Females	Males	Females	Males	Females
South East	…	…	…	153,227	29,292	39,551	25,258	7,591	7,065
East Anglia	…	…	…	17,606	3,762	2,743	2,113	541	497
South West	…	…	…	53,024	11,137	6,388	6,057	948	1,115
West Midlands	…	…	…	66,150	16,549	4,614	2,706	1,743	1,317
East Midlands	…	…	…	40,150	8,798	5,260	3,455	918	957
Yorkshire and Humberside	…	…	…	59,478	11,490	6,554	4,992	1,681	1,495
North West	…	…	…	114,231	21,967	7,735	6,263	1,086	1,587
North	…	…	…	58,514	13,534	6,454	4,338	551	885
Wales	…	…	…	41,460	9,357	3,086	2,870	606	691
Scotland	…	…	…	77,738	23,852	9,996	8,563	1,780	1,757
Northern Ireland	…	…	…	27,557	10,949	2,084	1,050	651	525

The vacancy statistics relate only to vacancies notified to employment offices and careers offices, and are not a measure of total vacancies. Because of possible duplication, the figures for employment offices and careers offices should not be added together.