asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the relative figures of male and female persons on the unemployment register in the Aberdeenshire, East constituency for the years 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982.

[pursuant to his reply, 20 January 1983, c. 213]: The tables following show annual averages of the numbers of people unemployed and the unemployment percentage rates in the employment office areas which fall wholly or partly within the Aberdeenshire, East constituency.