Labour Statistics

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 29 January 1991.

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Photo of Tony Blair Tony Blair , Sedgefield 12:00, 29 January 1991

With unemployment rising in every region of the country, every sector of industry and every occupation, what pride does the Secretary of State take in presiding over this unique combination—the fastest rising unemployment of any major industrial country, acute skill shortages and proposed cuts in the Department's budget for training the unemployed?