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Mr. Blunkett
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table indicating current unemployment levels in each urban development corporation area.
Mr. Jackson
Urban development corporation (UDC) boundaries do not correspond to areas for which unemployment figures are available. Unemployment figures for the travel-to-work areas which include the UDCs, for December 1990, are contained in the following table.
| Urban development corporation | TTWA | Total unemployed | 1Rate |
| London Docklands | London | 230,694 | 5·8 |
| Black Country | Walsall | 12,307 | 7·3 |
| Wolverhampton | 12,994 | 8·7 | |
| Dudley and Sandwell | 21,115 | 7·3 | |
| Merseyside | Liverpool | 63,743 | 12·6 |
| Tyne and Wear | South Tyneside | 9,020 | 15·5 |
Urban development corporation
| TTWA
| Total unemployed
| 1 Rate
|
| Sunderland | 20,253 | 11·0 | |
| Teeside | Stockton on Tees | 8,357 | 10·7 |
| Hartlepool | 5,207 | 13·3 | |
| Middlesbrough | 16,147 | 11·5 | |
| Cardiff Bay | Cardiff | 16,497 | 7·1 |
| Leeds | Leeds | 23,325 | 6·4 |
| Central Manchester | Manchester | 62,138 | 7·3 |
| Trafford Park | |||
| Sheffield | Sheffield | 25,609 | 8·9 |
| Bristol | Bristol | 20,548 | 5·5 |
1 Per cent. of workforce. | |||