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Mr. Lee
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the percentage unemployment changes in all Lancashire travel-to-work areas as between mid-1987 and the latest available date.
Mr. Jackson
The information is available in the Library. Percentage changes in unemployment between June 1987 and September 1990 for all the travel-to-work areas covering the county of Lancashire were:
| Travel to work area | Percentage change1 |
| Blackpool | -56·6 |
| Settle | -56·0 |
| Pendle | -51·1 |
| Lancaster and Morecambe | -47·3 |
| Wigan and St. Helens | -44·8 |
| Clitheroe | -44·5 |
| Bolton and Bury | -44·2 |
| Burnley | -43·1 |
| Preston | -42·4 |
| Accrington and Rossendale | -42·0 |
| Blackburn | -39·4 |
| Rochdale | -38·2 |
| Liverpool | -34·6 |
| 1 Unadjusted unemployment. | |