§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many male and female redundancies have been notified to his Department, region by region, in the last three available months; and how this compares with a similar period one year ago.
§ Mr. Chichester-ClarkFollowing is the information:
Social Fund towards the cost in 1973 of existing Government schemes for vocational training and resettlement in assisted areas. This application covers workers from the Lancashire textile industry but I am unable to estimate how many of them will take advantage of the schemes. I am considering what further claim on the fund the United Kingdom might make, to take advantage of the recently introduced special arrangements for textile workers.