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Unemployed Persons

Volume 978: debated on Tuesday 12 February 1980

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Mr. Austin Mitchell

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for each year since 1967 (a) the number of unfilled vacancies in each region, (b) the numbers of wholly unemployed and (c) the number of vacancies as a percentage of those wholly unemployed.

Mr. Jim Lester

The following tables give the numbers of vacancies remaining unfilled and the numbers of people registered as unemployed in each standard region at January each year from 1967. 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 this, and of possible duplication between the separate figures for employment offices and careers offices, the two series should not be added together and cannot be used to provide the proportions requested.

NOTIFIED UNFILLED VACANCIES SOUTH EAST
At employment officesAt careers offices
January 196768,12222,471
January 196866,17624,075
January 196974,95727,172
January 197075,85626,781
January 197164,80120,931
January 197246,24713,801
January 197386,76020,409
January 1974134,34935,989
January 1975*....
January 197633,7757,130
January 1977*....
January 197866,2069,027
January 197998,44314,890
January 198085,48911,568
East Anglia
At employment officesAt careers offices
January 19673,6951,272
January 19684,3631,649
January 19695,2101,738
January 19704,9441,553
January 19713,491338
January 19723,148929
January 19736,6221,743
January 19749,6923,535
January 1975*....
January 19762,462564
January 1977*....
January 19784,690522
January 19796,217801
January 19806,263584
SOUTH WEST
At employment officesAt careers offices
January19678,6882,815
January 19688,7733,419
January 196910,0313,904
January 19709,6183,441
January 19718,9672,798
January 19727,8922,395
January 197314,2653,186
January 197420,6435,466
January 1975*....
January 19765,1171,019
January 1977*....
January 19788,494706
January 197912,9811,291
January 198011,942866
WEST MIDLANDS
At employment officesAt careers offices
January 196715,7416,555
January 196813,8286,122
January 196916,7668,260
January 197015,3026,651
January 197111,5374,522
January 19727,1822,603
January 197314,1134,760
January 197423,57210,345
January 1975*....
January 19764,5181,471
January 1977*....
January 197811,3951,612
January 197913,5882,027
January 198011,8491,200
EAST MIDLANDS
January 196711,3614,837
January 196811,3934,270
January 196912,2215,340
January 197010,9284,118
January 19719,0862,807
January 19727,2721,832
January 197312,5972,987
January 197418,2456,847
January 1975*....
January 19765,7101,295
January 1977*....
January 197810,3591,070
January 197915,4241,370
January 198011,2981,154
YORKSHIRRE/HUMBERSIDE
January 196714,0957,385
January 196812,3566,635
January 196914,1286,703
January 197015,3465,383
January 197111,3914,351
January 19728,4902,452
January 197313,6914,419
January 197420,6659,213
January 1975*....
January 19765,9291,457
January 1977*....
January 197812,1061,202
January 197914,9391,455
January 198011,033967
NORTH WEST
January 196719,4026,662
January 196821,3026,110
January 196923,9617,648
January 197022,7096,085
January 197116,1494,819
January 19729,4122,989
January 197314,2333,927
January 197423,3708,187
January 1975*....
January 19768,0301,741
January 1977*....
January 197813,1741,050
January 197916,9411,458
January 198014,6211,324
NORTH
At employment officesAt careers offices
January 19676,4181,636
January 19686,5382,009
January 19697,1092,712
January 19707,8692,298
January 19716,4952,068
January 19724,5081,215
January 19737,9821,574
January 197411,2983,792
January 1975*....
January 19765,762854
January 1977*....
January 19788,775531
January 19799,604480
January 19807,984306
WALES
January 19675,8641,362
January 19684,6201,635
January 19695,0772,113
January 19705,6631,851
January 19715,3741,733
January 19723,8141,204
January 19735,3171,735
January 19747,8212,508
January 1975*....
January 19763,845552
January 1977*....
January 19786,279341
January 19797,344434
January 19807,323391
SCOTLAND
January 196710,6954,772
January 19689,8444,835
January 196911,4745,741
January 197011,1414,704
January 19717,1973,326
January 19724,7581,814
January 19739,3712,017
January 197415,7026,419
January 1975*....
January 197611,6361,817
January 1977*....
January 197815,686824
January 197918,108961
January 198016,824787
GREAT BRITAIN
January 1967164,08159,767
January 1968159,19360,759
January 1969180,93471,331
January 1970179,37662,866
January 1971144,48848,693
January 1972102,72331,234
January 1973184,95146,757
January 1974285,35792,301
January 1975*....
January 197686,78417,900
January 1977*....
January 1978157,16416,885
January 1979213,58925,167
January 1980184,62619,147
* Not available.
Note: There were minor changes in the boundaries of some regions in April 1974 and for this reason the figures for January 1974 and earlier dates ate not strictly comparable with those for later dates

Registered Unemployed
South EastEast AngliaSouth WestWest MidlandsEast MidlandsYorkshire and HumbersideNorth WestNorthWalesScotlandGreat Britain
January 1967………133,15114,1023',75238,66423,67637,06666,36150,42140,85484,303527,350
January 1968………146,36613,63338,44948,92227,52451,93377,56361,06942,06992,123600,387
January 1969………135,88013,59138,00442,70528,99655,60173,84867,54641,40686,436584,013
January 1971………144,72918, 05£44,79352,89435,71364,90191,76066,83342,104113,037647,815
January 1972………186,90523,27056,30787,19848,00490,967140,37189,55255,296149,750926,615
January 1973………150,65216,58844,94666,946129,70072,721129,70076,44545,772127,523769,429
January 1974………11',79312,89141,90447,96032,89355,51695,23259,33038,05695,116597,691
January*…………154,40019,00060,00061,30041,'0065,900118,40067,90047,400102,300738,000
January 1976………296,34233,446100,899129,59971,553109,314189,31994,08377,199150,0721,251,826
January 1977………342,76436,916113,119129,13076,270115,126202,963107,14083,273183,4181,390,218
January 1978………348,91738,312119,161130,84482,224127,646217,317123,52593,112203,6291,484,687
January 1979………305,37336,235106,336126,00178,521125,478208,842121,64792,300190,3001,391,220
January 1980………294,30934,05699,869133,28779,713127,733215,530125,79690,864203,2321,404,389

* Estimated