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Volume 28: debated on Friday 30 July 1982

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asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the total of employed persons in the Hull travel-to-work area for each year since 1970.

Statistics of the numbers of employees in employment are available from censuses of employment conducted annually from 1971 to 1978. Censuses were not taken in 1979 and 1980 and the results of the September 1981 census are not yet available. Following the reorganisation of local government in 1974, it was not possible to compile figures of the total numbers of employees in local areas for that year.The available information is as follows:

Employees in employment in the Hull travel-to-work area
(000s)
June 1971161·2
June 1972161·5
June 1973170·4
June 1974Not available
June 1975167·9
June 1976168·5
June 1977169·5
June 1978165·6
Because of changes in the methods used to allocate employees to employment office areas in 1977 and again in 1978, the figures for these years are not strictly comparable with those for earlier years and no significance should be attached to small differences.
Table 1
Hull travel-to-work area
Age Groups
Duration of unemployment in weeksUnder 18181920–2425–2930–34
One or less331923614338
Over 1 and up to 25123723785951
Over 2 and up to 4102755922613076
Over 4 and up to 6104676220912084
Over 6 and up to 81107355242171119
Over 8 and up to 13235197154448300222
Over 13 and up to 26322359311976608441
Over 26 and up to 39269296287798487342
Over 39 and up to 52133164196473320256
Over 52 and up to 654097204392255193
Over 65 and up to 782958135327248180
Over 78 and up to 1042754186531340284
Over 104 and up to 15613785498273179
Over 156220252246204
Total1,9171,5351,8005,5113,6002,669
Age Groups
Duration of unemployment in weeks35–4445–4950–5455–5960 and overTotal
One or less3322241114321
Over 1 and up to 2623223179903
Over 2 and up to 414157454235988
Over 4 and up to 615351402926945
Over 6 and up to 8135625457381,116
Over 8 and up to 13305126138114622,301
Over 13 and up to 265572732592722414,619
Over 26 and up to 394391971992382753,827
Over 39 and up to 522661261551421742,405
Over 52 and up to 652261081051171381,875
Over 65 and up to 78222118991081091,633
Over 78 and up to 1043121491401461442,313
Over 104 and up to 1562781271471431091,877
Over 1563812442833701882,190
Total3,5101,6921,7111,8061,56227,313
Table 2
Hull travel-to-work area
June each yearRegistered unemployedNotified vacancies remaining unfilled
NumberPercentage rateAt employment officesAt careers offices
197815,0978·3837214
197913,8737·61,067187
198016,8889·2559127
198124,31113·359343
198227,61815·181832

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give a breakdown of the age and duration of unemployment in the Hull travel-to-work area, the total and percentage for the month of June 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982, and the vacancies available then.

Table 1 gives the age and duration analysis of registered unemployment in the Hull travel-to-work area at 15 April 1982, the latest date for which the information is available.Table 2 gives the total numbers and percentage rates of unemployment and the numbers of notified vacancies remaining unfilled at June each year from 1978.

The vacancy statistics relate only to vacancies 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 offices and careers offices should not be added together.

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many jobs were lost in the industrial classification sectors of industries in Hull and Humberside, respectively, since June 1979.

The information is not available in the form requested. Comparison of the employee figures for different dates indicates net changes, but changes in levels of employment since 1979 are not available for Hull and Humberside.Employee figures for local areas and counties are obtained from the census of employment and the most recent are for June 1978. No censuses were taken in 1979 and 1980 and information from the September 1981 census is not yet available.