Unemployed Persons

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 23 January 1979.

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Photo of Mr Albert Booth Mr Albert Booth , Barrow-in-Furness 12:00, 23 January 1979

I resent the suggestion that I have not given the House the true figures. I gave the figures that I was requested to give, together with the seasonally adjusted change—the figure normally taken by the House as the best indication of the way in which unemployment is moving.