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Mr. Kaufman
asked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the latest monthly unemployment figures and vacancy figures for the travel-to-work areas most nearly corresponding to (a) the City of Manchester and (b) Greater Manchester, together with the corresponding monthly figures for each year since and including 1970.
Mr. Jim Lester
[pursuant to his reply, 21st December 1979, c. 479]: The following table gives the information for the Manchester travel-to-work area and for the Greater Manchester metropolitan
| Manchester travel-to-work area Unfilled vacancies | Greater Manchester metropolitan county Unfilled vacancies | ||||||
| Registered unemployed | At employment offices | At careers offices | Registered unemployed | At employment offices | At careers offices | ||
| December 1970 | … | 15,991 | 5,879 | 1,413 | 26,526 | 8,566 | 2,122 |
| December 1971 | … | 26,874 | 2,841 | 1,005 | 46,686 | 4,003 | 1,279 |
| December 1972 | … | 26,417 | 3,430 | 1,175 | 43,390 | 5,533 | 1,561 |
| December 1973 | … | 15,238 | 7,103 | 3,364 | 23,808 | 12,775 | 4,940 |
| December 1974* | … | — | 5,607 | 1,334 | — | 9,540 | 2,375 |
| December 1975 | … | 34,477 | 2,305 | 839 | 57,924 | 3,822 | 1,089 |
| December 1976* | … | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| December 1977 | … | 43,700 | 3,281 | 327 | 72,343 | 5,383 | 491 |
| December 1978 | … | 38,837 | 5,113 | 665 | 64,629 | 7,943 | 868 |
| December 1979 | … | 37,823 | 4,418 | 498 | 65,107 | 7,043 | 624 |
| * Because of industrial action by some staff in the Department of Employment group, unemployment figures for December 1974 and unemployment and vacancy figures for December1976 are not available. | |||||||
| Note: The vacancy figures relate only to those notified to employment offices and careers offices: vacancies notified to employment offices are estimated to be about one-third of all vacancies in the country as a whole. Because of possible duplication the figures for employment and careers offices should not be added together. | |||||||