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Sir W. Elliott
asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many skilled operatives in the building industry in the Northern Region were registered as unemployed at the latest available date.
Mr. John Fraser
The following table shows an occupational analysis of unemployed males registered at employment offices in the North Region at July 1975 who last worked in construction.
| Site and other managers, agents and clerks of works, general foremen (building and civil engineering) | 53 |
| Carpenters and joiners (construction sites and maintenance | 843 |
| Maintenance fitters (non-electrical) plant and industrial machinery | 168 |
| Electricians (installation and maintenance) premises and ships | 288 |
| Cable jointers and linesmen | 12 |
| Plumbers, pipe fitters | 440 |
| Heating and ventilating engineering fitters | 53 |
| Gas fitters | 39 |
| Steel erectors | 117 |
| Scaffolders, stagers | 137 |
| Steel benders, bar benders and fixers | 72 |
| Painters and decorators | 569 |
| Bricklayers | 630 |
| Fixer/walling masons | 6 |
| Plasterers | 286 |
| Floor and wall tilers, terrazzo workers | 32 |
| Roofers and slaters | 126 |
| Glaziers | 20 |
| Asphalt and bitumen road surfacers | 22 |
| Other roadmen. | 48 |
| Concrete erectors/assemblers | 3 |
| Concrete levellers/screeders | 13 |
| Mains and service layers and pipe jointers (gas, water, drainage, oil) | 36 |
| Mechanical plant drivers/operators (earth moving and civil engineering) | 115 |
| Crane drivers/operators | 56 |
| Fork lift and other mechanical truck drivers/operators | 28 |
| All other occupations, including labourers | 11,408 |
| Total, all occupations | 15,620 |
| The table does not include data from Careers Offices. | |