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Employment Statistics

Volume 225: debated on Tuesday 18 May 1993

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To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many men and women, distinguishing between full-time and part-time employees and excluding all in training, were in employment in (a) June 1979 and (b) the latest date for which figures are available, in each travel-to-work area that covers an enterprise zone; and what were the figures for those unemployed in each case.

Travel-to-work areas which wholly or partly cover enterprise zones are listed. Information on full-time and part-time employees and claimant unemployment for these areas can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the Library.Data on employment by ward-based travel-to-work area is available since September 1981 from the periodic censuses of employment. Monthly ward-based claimant count information is available on the unadjusted basis from June 1983 onwards.Travel-to-work areas in the United Kingdom wholly or partly covering enterprise zones:

  • Medway and Maidstone
  • Dudley and Sandwell
  • Telford and Bridgenorth
  • Wellingborough and Rushden
  • Rotherham and Mexborough
  • Wakefield and Dewsbury
  • Accrington and Rossendale
  • Burnley
  • Pendle
  • Workington
  • Hartlepool
  • Sunderland
  • Haverfordwest
  • Shotton Flint and Rhyl
  • South Pembrokeshire
  • Swansea
  • Dundee
  • Greenock
  • Invergordon and Dingwall
  • Lanarkshire
  • Londonderry