Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 29 Ionawr 1991.
Following is the information:
| Comparisons of unemployment between EC countries | ||
| Standardised unemployment rates2 seasonally adjusted | ||
| Per cent. rate | Latest month | |
| Spain | 15·8 | August |
| Ireland | 14·8 | November |
| Italy | 9·9 | July |
| France | 8·9 | October |
| Belgium | 8·2 | November |
| Denmark | (8·2)2 | November |
| Greece | (7·4)1 | April 1987 |
| Netherlands | 7·4 | September |
| United Kingdom | 6·7 | November |
| Portugal | 4·7 | August |
| Luxembourg | (1·7)2 | November |
| EC Average | (8·3)2 | November |
| Note: For those EC countries for which no OECD standardised rates are available, similar harmonised rates compiled by the Statistical Office of European Communities (EUROSTAT) are shown in brackets. These showed the United Kingdom rate at 6·7 per cent. in November compared with the EC average of 8·3 per cent. | ||
| 1 Recent comparable figures are currently not available in Greece, the latest relating to April 1987. | ||
| 2 There are no reliable figures available as yet for a unified Germany. | ||
