§ Mr. Gwynoro Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many redundancies, notified to his Department, took place in each of the economic planning regions of Great Britain in 1971; and how many people were involved in each region.
§ Mr. BryanAs at 31st December, 1971, the number of redundancies notified and recorded by my Department as having been due to take place in 1971 and the number of establishments concerned were:
Economic Planning Region Establishments Notifying Redundancies Workpeople Involved Northern 389 24,010 Yorkshire and Humberside 569 31,550 South Eastern 1,159 86,480 East Anglia 124 9,330 South Western 278 14,550 Wales 267 14,910 East Midlands 253 16,460 West Midlands 401 35,810 North Western 602 59,080 Scotland 768 42,310 Great Britain 4,810 334,490 Note: The figures of "workpeople involved" are provisional figures uniformly adjusted to take account of belated information received up to two months late. A different provisional figure for Wales of 16,250 has been circulated, which was specially extracted from detailed records adjusted to take account of all belated information.