asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give details of the job creation programme as applied in Carlisle.

, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 4th April 1977; Vol. 929, c. 384], gave the following information:I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that the information is information as follows:

At 10th March 1977, 14,770 people were registered as unemployed in Cornwall. This represented a rate of unemployment of 11·4 per cent. The Western Isles area of Scotland, which is regarded as a county for administrative purposes, was the only county with a higher percentage rate of unemployment.