Gillian Shephard on rising unemployment

Title

Gillian Shephard on rising unemployment

Genre

Interview

TX Date

15 Oct 1992

Year of production

1992

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Duration

00:03:10

Description

One in ten people in Britain is now unemployed. Paul Rowley talks to Employment Secretary, Gillian Shephard about increasing levels of unemployment. She talks about measures the Government is taking to help the unemployed, including the 31,000 miners who are to be made redundant.

Contributors

Paul Rowley; Gillian Shephard

Keywords

Government; Conservative Party; Unemployment; Employment; Coal industry; Coal miners; Recruitment; Economic systems; Economic recession; Unemployment statistics; Redundancies

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