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Mr. William Hamilton
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many persons registered in Scotland for employment as doctors, nurses and teachers, respectively, were unemployed in May in each of the last five years.
Mr. Alexander Fletcher
Information is not available in the precise form requested. The following table gives the numbers of unemployed people in Scotland registered for employment in the specified occupations in June—the nearest month to May for which information is available—in each of the past five years.
| Numbers Registered in Scotland for Employment | |||||
| June of each year | |||||
| 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | |
| Medical practitioners | 17 | 25 | 35 | 28 | 48 |
| June of each year | |||||
| 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | |
| State registered and State enrolled nurses and State certified midwives | 570 | 632 | 564 | 606 | 806 |
| Teachers (primary and secondary) | 723 | 723 | 962 | 971 | 1,612 |