Coventry

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 April 1959.

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Mr. Macleod:

It is true that in a period in which there has been a difficult unemployment situation the number of those unemployed over any given length of time is bound to have increased. Not only is the general employment situation in Coventry a good deal more favourable than in the rest of the country, but, as the lion. Lady knows, the March unemployment figure was 1·8 per cent. But even in the case of those unemployed for over six months, both men and women, the position in Coventry is more favourable.