§ Mr. Donald Stewartasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many redundancies were notified under section 100 of the Employment Protection Act in each of the last 12 months.
§ Mr. Jim LesterIn accordance with section 100 of the Employment Protection Act 1975, the number of proposed redundancies notified to my Department in each of the last 12 months, was as follows:
November 1978 37,786 December 36,575 January 1979 45,491 February 42,913 March 50,114 April 39,913 May 35,690 June 46,232 July 33,519 August 38,085 September 43,105 October 62,040 Total 511,463 During the same period, notifications involving 116,956 proposed redundancies were officially withdrawn.