asked the Minister for Social Welfare the average number of unemployed for each of the first nine months of this year; the number provided for in the Estimates for 1987; and the number provided for in the Estimates for 1988 (Abridged Version).
Written Answers. - Unemployment Statistics.
108.
The numbers unemployed at the end of each of the first nine months of 1987 are shown in the following table:
Numbers of Unemployed People January-September 1987
|
Month |
Total Live Register |
|
January 1987 |
254,526 |
|
February 1987 |
252,454 |
|
March 1987 |
249,372 |
|
April 1987 |
250,689 |
|
May 1987 |
246,085 |
|
June 1987 |
246,825 |
|
July 1987 |
248,462 |
|
August 1987 |
248,759 |
|
September 1987 |
241,765 |
The average live register underlying the 1987 published Estimate was 241,000. This has since been revised to 248,500. The number underlying the 1988 Estimate is 256,000.
109.
asked the Minister for Social Welfare what the unemployment figures for September 1987 would have been if the Jobsearch scheme had not commenced.
It is not possible to be precise about the complete impact of the Jobsearch Programme on the live register. The programme is specially designed to be of help to those long term unemployed on the register in their search for work, social employment or training programmes. A side effect of this programme is that it can identify people who are not available for or genuinely seeking work.
Figures for the period up to 25 September 1987 show that those who had their cases reviewed resulting in disallowances and those who left the live register voluntarily following offers of assistance under the programme totalled over 6,500.