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Mr. Matthew Taylor
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the percentage of (a) female and (b) male unemployment in 1985, 1986 and 1987 in Scotland.
Mr. Lang
The annual average rate of female unemployment (the number of unemployed female claimants as a percentage of the estimated total female working population), and the annual average rate of male unemployment (the number of unemployed male claimants as a percentage of the estimated total male working population), for each of the years 1985, 1986 and 1987 in Scotland was as follows:
| Female Percentage | Male Percentage | |
| 1985 | 10·7 | 16·7 |
| 1986 | 11·0 | 17·1 |
| 1987 | 10·1 | 17·0 |