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Mr. William Hamilton
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many persons registered for employment as medical practitioners, qualified nurses and teachers, respectively, were unemployed in June in each of the last five years.
Mr. Alexander Fletcher
The information is set out in the following table:
| Unemployed people in Scotland registered for employment as | |||||
| Occupation | June 1978 | June 1979 | June 1980 | June 1981 | June 1982 |
| Medical practitioners | 29 | 35 | 28 | 48 | 89 |
| State-registered and State-enrolled nurses and State-certified midwives | 646 | 564 | 606 | 806 | 927 |
| Primary and secondary school teachers | 825 | 962 | 971 | 1,612 | 2,623 |