§ Mr. Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many textile workers have been made redundant or have been placed on short-time working (a) in the North West as a whole and (b) in the area covered by the Macclesfield constituency, in the latest period for which figures are available.
§ Mr. John FraserI am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that redundancies in the textile industry in the North-West Region, notified to the Employment Service Agency in January 1975, affected 223 workers, including 45 in the Macclesfield and Congleton Employment Office areas. In the week commencing 17th February 7,438 workers in the textile industry in the North-West Region were known to my Department to be on short-time working. 840 of these were in the Macclesfield and Congleton employment office areas.