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Mr. Knox
asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list in order the 20 towns or cities with the highest level of unemployment at the most recent count, stating the percentage of the working population who were unemployed against each town or city.
Mr. John Fraser
Rates of unemployment relate to either single employment office areas or to travel-to-work areas comprising groups of employment office areas. The rates are calculated by expressing the numbers unemployed as percentages of the estimated number of employees, employed and unemployed. The following table sets out the information available:
| Employment Office or travel-to-work area | Percentage rate of unemployment |
| Stornoway | 15·8 |
| Lesmahagow | 13·1 |
| Pembroke Dock | 11·9 |
| Stranraer | 11·5 |
| Ystradgynlais* | 11·5 |
| Blaenau Ffestiniog | 11·2 |
| Helston | 11·2 |
| Holyhead* | 11·0 |
| Blyth | 10·2 |
| Campbeltown | 10·2 |
| Bargoed* | 10·1 |
| Caernarvon* | 10·1 |
| Cardigan | 10·1 |
| Cumbernauld | 10·1 |
| Newton Stewart | 9·9 |
| Sanquhar | 9·9 |
| Wrexham* | 9·9 |
| Lanark | 9·8 |
| Liverpool* | 9·6 |
| Wick | 9·5 |
| * Travel-to-work area | |