Unemployment Statistics

Mr. J. Enoch Powell
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the travel-to-work areas in Scotland in which, at the latest convenient date, percentage unemployment was higher than for Northern Ieland.

Mr. Alexander Fletcher
The information, as at 13 March 1980, is set out in the table below:---------------------
|Travel-to-work-area|
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|Campbeltown        |
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|Cumnock            |
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|Dumbarton          |
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|Forres             |
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|Girvan             |
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|Greenock           |
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|Irvine             |
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|Kilmarnock         |
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|North Lanarkshire  |
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|South Lanarkshire  |
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|Newton Stewart     |
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|Portree            |
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|Rothesay           |
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|Sanquhar           |
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|Stornoway          |
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|Northern Ireland   |
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