SIR: I read with some interest the jobless figures( BEN, March 18). Apparently, Bolton's dole queue was down by 173 for the month of February.

What those figures failed to tell us is how many people had found employment and how many had been forced onto schemes and were, therefore, no longer counted as unemployed.

Are we ever going to get a true set of jobless figures?

H B James

Lightbounds Road, Bolton

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