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Unemployment

Volume 270: debated on Monday 22 January 1996

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18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the figure for male unemployment in (a) Newport, Gwent and (b) Wales at the latest available date and expressed in percentage terms. [8847]

In December 1995, the unadjusted number of males on the claimant unemployment count in the Newport travel-to-work-area was 5,841. This compares with 82,839 in Wales. The unemployment rates were 10 per cent. and 11.1 per cent. respectively.