asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will indicate the total number of persons employed in the county of Cornwall in the month of January in the respective years 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 and 1977, together with the respective recorded unfilled vacancies.
The employment estimates requested are available only for June each year and the latest are for June 1975. These are shown in the following table together with the notified unfilled vacancies for both January and June each year:
| EMPLOYEES IN EMPLOYMENT AND NOTIFIED UNFILLED VACANCIES IN CORNWALL | |||
| Notified unfilled vacancies | |||
| Employees in employment (000's) | Employment offices | Careers Offices | |
| 1969— | |||
| January | 680 | 269 | |
| June | 96 | 1,576 | 736 |
| 1970— | |||
| January | 723 | 359 | |
| June | 98 | 1,726 | 688 |
| 1971— | |||
| January | 798 | 246 | |
| June (a) | 98 | 1,762 | 378 |
| (b) | 111 | ||
| 1972— | |||
| January | 713 | 145 | |
| June | 112 | 2,065 | 477 |
| 1973— | |||
| January | 1,302 | 241 | |
| June | 119 | 2,584 | 562 |
| 1974— | |||
| January | 1,553 | 365 | |
| June | 121 | 2,944 | 615 |
| 1975— | |||
| January | Not available | ||
| June | 121 | 1,428 | 189 |
| 1976— | |||
| January | 386 | 91 | |
| June | Not available | 1,105 | 163 |
| 1977— | |||
| January | Not available | ||
b) and later dates are taken from censuses of employment and are not strictly comparable with those for 1971 ( a) and earlier dates which were based on counts of national insurance cards. These earlier figures do not include some civil servants and Post Office workers who did not have NI cards and some people whose cards
were exchanged in different areas from their place of work. In addition, employees at Saltash were included with those for Plymouth and Devonport at the earlier dates and where so excluded from the total for Cornwall. Saltash is included in the figures for later dates.