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Mr. Alexander
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were registered as unemployed on (a) 1 January 1987 and (b) 1 January in the current year.
Mr. Jackson
In January 1987, on the consistent seasonally adjusted basis, there were 3,042,600 unemployed claimants in the United Kingdom, compared with 2,604,100 in January 1992—a fall of 438,500, or 14 per cent.