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Mr. Kilroy-Silk
asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many jobs in (a) the North West, (b) Merseyside, (c) Kirkby and (d) Ormskirk travel-to-work areas have been dependent on temporary short-time working subsidy in each year since its introduction.
Mr. Alison
I regret that statistics in the form requested are not readily available below regional level and could be extracted only at disproportionate cost. However, the following tables show the figures requested for the North-West region for each year since the introduction of the temporary short time working compensation scheme and the figures requested for all areas for September 1982:
| North West Region | |
| Column 1 | Column 2 |
| Year | Number of potentially redundant jobs covered by applications that were approved in column 1 |
| April 1979 to March 1980 | 27,829 |
| April 1980 to March 1981 | 96,012 |
| April 1981 to March 1982 | 28,038 |
| April 1982 to September 1982 | 7,796 |
| Column 1 | Column 2 |
| Area | Number of potentially redundant jobs for which reimbursement for support was claimed in September 1982 |
| North West Region | 6,013 |
| Merseyside Special Development Area | 416 |
| Kirkby Employment Office Area | 35 |
| Ormskirk Travel-to-Work Area | 35 |