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Mr. McLeish
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) what is the total number of quarterly attenders reporting to unemployment benefit offices in Great Britain and in each of the standard regions, Scotland and Wales;(2) whether quarterly attenders aged over 50 years are included in the published monthly unemployment figures.
Mr. Eggar
The following table shows the number of quarterly attenders for November 1989 in Great Britain and in each of the standard regions, Scotland and Wales.
Quarterly Attenders in November 1989 | |
Number | |
Great Britain | 149,572 |
South East | 25,985 |
East Anglia | 2,756 |
Number
| |
South West | 8,032 |
West Midlands | 18,627 |
East Midlands | 10,257 |
Yorkshire and Humberside | 18,397 |
North West | 22,257 |
North | 13,770 |
Scotland | 21,674 |
Wales | 7,547 |
The provision of signing quarterly is mainly for those aged 50 and over, who have been unemployed for one year and have no entitlement to unemployment benefit.