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Mr. Field
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the numbers of (a) men and (b) women workers who exhausted their right to unemployment benefit for each year since 1948; and if he will present these data as a percentage of the registered unemployed.
| Registered unemployed*† (Thousands) | Benefit exhausted† (Thousands) | Columns (4)—(6) as a percentage of columns (1)—(3)respectively | |||||||||
| Year (November unless month stated) | All persons | Male | Female | All persons | Male | Female | All persons | Male | Female | ||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | |||
| 1959 | … | … | 434 | 315 | 119 | 66 | 58 | 8 | 15·2 | 18·4 | 6·7 |
| 1960 | … | … | 352 | 253 | 98 | 61 | 54 | 7 | 17·3 | 21·3 | 7·1 |
| 1961 | … | … | 383 | 282 | 101 | 54 | 48 | 7 | 14·1 | 17·0 | 6·9 |
| 1962 | … | … | 544 | 408 | 136 | 65 | 57 | 7 | 11·9 | 14·0 | 5·1 |
| 1963 | … | … | 477 | 354 | 123 | 83 | 74 | 9 | 17·4 | 209 | 73 |
| 1964 | … | … | 350 | 261 | 90 | 71 | 63 | 8 | 20·3 | 24·1 | 8·9 |
| 1965 | … | … | 325 | 248 | 77 | 58 | 51 | 6 | 17·8 | 20·6 | 7·8 |
| 1966 | … | … | 485 | 387 | 98 | 54 | 48 | 6 | 11·1 | 12·4 | 6·1 |
| 1967 | … | … | 569 | 464 | 104 | 86 | 79 | 8 | 15·1 | 17·0 | 7·7 |
| 1968 | … | … | 556 | 467 | 88 | 109 | 101 | 8 | 19·6 | 21·6 | 9·1 |
| 1969 | … | … | 559 | 472 | 87 | 120 | 112 | 8 | 21·5 | 23·7 | 9·2 |
| 1970 | … | … | 596 | 502 | 94 | 129 | 120 | 9 | 21·6 | 23·9 | 9·6 |
| 1971 | … | … | 860 | 722 | 138 | 165 | 154 | 11 | 19·2 | 21·3 | 8·0 |
| 1972 | … | … | 789 | 654 | 136 | 211 | 196 | 15 | 26·7 | 30·0 | 11·0 |
| 1973 | … | … | 509 | 429 | 80 | 163 | 151 | 12 | 32·0 | 35·2 | 15·0 |
| 1974 | … | … | 618 | 521 | 97 | 145 | 135 | 10 | 23·5 | 25·9 | 10·3 |
| 1975 | … | … | 1,079 | 859 | 220 | 173 | 160 | 13 | 16·0 | 18·6 | 5·9 |
| 1976 (May) | … | 1,200 | 952 | 248 | 221 | 202 | 19 | 18·4 | 21·2 | 7·7 | |
| 1977 | … | … | 1,348 | 985 | 362 | 307 | 270 | 37 | 22·8 | 27·4 | 10·2 |
| 1978 | … | … | 1,209 | 879 | 331 | 337 | 293 | 45 | 27·9 | 33·3 | 13·6 |
| 1979 (May) | … | 1,106 | 817 | 288 | 332 | 288 | 45 | 30·0 | 35·3 | 15·6 | |
| Source: 100 per cent. count on a day in November each year except 1976 and 1979 when the figures given refer to May—no count was made in November 1976 due to figures for November 1979 are not yet available. | |||||||||||
| * From 1959 to1977 the count included both claimants; and non-claimants. From November1978 only persons claiming unemployment benefit or credits were included. | |||||||||||
| † The sum of individual columns may not agree with the totals because of rounding. | |||||||||||