HC Deb 11 December 1972 vol 848 cc43-4W
65. Mr. Varley

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list in the OFFICIAL REPORT the number and percentage of redundancies announced in, respectively, the shipbuilding and machine tool industries for each month since and including January 1968.

Mr. Dudley Smith

National figures of redundancies are available only from January 1969, and separate figures for metal-working machine tools from October 1970. Information on this basis is given in the tables below:

REDUNDANCIES RECORDED IN SHIPBUILDING AND MARINE ENGINEERING
Month Redundancies due to occur Percentage of all-industry redundancies
1969
January 250 2.4
February 120 1.3
March 630 4.6
April 170 1.5
May 240 2.1
June 600 5.1
July 560 4.2
August 900 7.1
September 260 2.1
October 270 2.5
November 170 1.0
December 240 1.7
1970
January 50 0.3
February 530 3.1
March 880 4.1
April 940 5.0
May 820 3.8
June 1,320 8.6
July 620 3.6
August 810 5.2
September 680 3.8
October 870 4.2
November 700 3.3
December 870 4.7
1971
January 390 1.4
February 200 0.8
March 260 0.6
April 190 0.6
May 300 0.9
June 520 2.3
July 350 1.2
August 810 4.0
September 1,190 5.3
October 690 2.2
November 770 3.1
December 720 3.4

Month Redundancies due to occur Percentage of all-industry redundancies
1972
January 920 3.9
February 240 1.5
March 320 1.5
April 170 0.9
May 190 1.6
June 890 5.6
July 470 2.9
August 110 0.9
September 810 5.2
October 790 6.0
November 360 3.7

REDUNDANCIES RECORDED IN THE METAL-WORKING MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRY
Month Redundancies due to occur Percentage of all-industry redundancies
1970
October 10 0.05
November 110 0.5
December 50 0.3
1971
January 140 0.5
February 1,200 4.6
March 490 1.1
April 1,360 4.0
May 910 2.8
June 570 2.5
July 560 1.9
August 930 4.6
September 970 4.3
October 790 2.5
November 500 2.0
December 580 2.7
1972
January 1,120 4.8
February 560 3.4
March 370 1.8
April 380 2.0
May 150 1.3
June 720 4.6
July 610 3.8
August 520 4.4
September 540 3.5
October 420 3.2
November 700 7.1