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Mr. Ovenden
asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many qualified nurses are registered as unemployed in the United Kingdom; and what is the figure for each county.
Mr. Golding
, pursuant to his reply [Official Report 16th December 1977; Vol. 941, c. 448], gave the following information:The following table shows the numbers of unemployed people registered at offices in each county at 8th September for employment as qualified nurses:
| TOTAL UNEMPLOYED NURSE ADMINISTRATORS AND EXECUTIVES, AND STATE REGISTERED AND STATE ENROLLED NURSES AND STATE CERTIFIED MIDWIVES FOR EACH COUNTY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND—AT SEPTEMBER 1977 | |
| County (by Region) | Total |
| South-East | |
| Bedfordshire | 50 |
| Berkshire | 51 |
| Buckinghamshire | 33 |
| East Sussex | 57 |
| Essex | 103 |
| Greater London | 623 |
| Hampshire | 127 |
| Hertfordshire | 62 |
| Isle of Wight | 15 |
| Kent | 97 |
| Oxfordshire | 46 |
| Surrey | 38 |
| West Sussex | 34 |
| East Anglia | |
| Cambridgeshire | 47 |
| Norfolk | 59 |
| Suffolk | 55 |
| South West | |
| Avon | 94 |
| Cornwall | 61 |
| Devon | 137 |
| Dorset | 77 |
| Gloucestershire | 58 |
| Somerset | 35 |
| Wiltshire | 78 |
| West Midands | |
| West Midlands Metropolitan | 243 |
| Hereford and Worcester | 29 |
| Salop | 30 |
| Staffordshire | 52 |
| Warwickshire | 24 |
| East Midlands | |
| Derbyshire | 43 |
| Leicestershire | 59 |
| Lincolnshire | 64 |
| Northamptonshire | 36 |
| Nottinghamshire | 61 |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | |
| South Yorkshire Metropolitan | 128 |
| West Yorkshire Metropolitan | 178 |
| Humbersire | 59 |
| North Yorkshire | 65 |
| North West | |
| Greater Manchester Metroplitan | 188 |
| Merseyside Metropolitan | 153 |
| Cheshire | 106 |
| Lancashire | 121 |
| North | |
| Cleveland | 66 |
| Cumbria | 94 |
| Durham | 89 |
| Northumberland | 34 |
| Tyne and Wear Metropolitan | 155 |
| Wales | |
| Clwyd | 51 |
| Dyfed | 50 |
| Gwent | 49 |
| Gwynedd | 43 |
| Mid-Glamorgan | 45 |
| Powys | 14 |
| South Glamorgan | 22 |
| West Glamorgan | 54 |
| Scotland | |
| Borders | 5 |
| Central | 40 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 15 |
| Fife | 92 |
| Grampian | 64 |
| Highlands | 43 |
| Lothians | 59 |
| Orkneys | 5 |
| Shetlands | 1 |
| Strathclyde | 318 |
| Tayside | 67 |
| Western Isles | 11 |
| Northern Ireland | 420 |
| United Kingdom | 5,588 |