§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is his estimate of the cost to the redundancy payments fund of the rise in the Scottish unemployment in the last year.
§ Mr. GoldingThe following information relates to redundancy payments to employees in respect of whom rebates to employers or direct payments to employees were made from the Redundancy Fund by the Department of Employment Finance Office for Scotland:
Payments from Redundancy Fund £ Year ended 30th September 1977 8,639,000 Year ended 30th September 1976 7,416,000 Increase in cost in year 1,223,000