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Mr. Stern
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the Official Report a list of the unemployment figures, at the latest available date, for each Scottish county.
Mr. Lang
The level and rate of unemployment in each of the Scottish regions as of August 1990 is given in the table. Overall unemployment in Scotland has fallen by over 135,000 in the past three years.
| Unemployment in Scotland, August 19901 | ||
| County/Region | Number unemployed | Rate2 |
| Borders | 1,900 | 3·8 |
| Central | 10,583 | 8·8 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 4,273 | 6·0 |
| Fife | 12,179 | 8·3 |
| Grampian | 9,200 | 3·4 |
| Highlands | 6,590 | 6·6 |
| Lothian | 25,563 | 6·2 |
| Strathclyde | 114,356 | 10·3 |
| Tayside | 14,136 | 7·2 |
| Orkney Islands | 396 | 4·1 |
| Shetland Islands | 365 | 2·9 |
| Western Islands | 1,385 | 10·0 |
| Scotland | 200,926 | 8·0 |
| 1 Unadjusted for seasonal variation. | ||
| 2 Rates expressed as a percentage of the workforce. | ||
Source: Department of Employment