§ 27. Mr. Woolmerasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is, for each month since January 1978, the number of redundancies covered by notices under the Employment Protection Act 1975 he has received from employers in wool textiles (MLH 414), carpets (MLH 419) and men's outer wear (MLH 442) sectors in comparison with the list of actual redundancies he gave in answer to the hon. Member for Batley and Morley on 29 November 1979; and what estimate he has made of the effects of loss of jobs through voluntary redundancy, early retirement and natural wastage in West Yorkshire.
§ Mr. Jim Lester[pursuant to his reply, 11 February 1980, Vol. 978, c. 361–2]: Details are given below of the number of redundancies notified under the Employment Protection Act 1975, each month in 1978 and 1979 in the sectors covered by MLH 414, MLH 419 and MLH 442 in Great Britain and the Yorkshire and Humberside region. These figures are listed according to the month in which advance notification of an impending redundancy was received. I regret that it is not possible to set out the information according to the months in which the redundancies were due to take place.
It should be noted that many of the redundancies notified in this way do not in the event take place.
The figures provided in reply to the hon. Member's question of 29 November 1979 were of redundancies which were known to have taken place. But these were not fully comprehensive as there is not statutory obligation on employers to provide the Department with figures of actual redundancies.
669WThe figures below are, therefore, not comparable with those supplied on 29 November 1979.
I regret that a breakdown for West Yorkshire could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The vast majority of employees in these three sectors in the Yorkshire and Humberside region are, however, located in West Yorkshire. The
REDUNDANCIES NOTIFIED UNDER THE EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION ACT 1975 IN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE REGION* MLH 414 MLH 419 MLH 442 GB Y&H GB Y & H GB Y&H January 1978 … 742 647 365 — 446 353 February 1978 … 590 590 364 85 1,398 188 March 1978 … 1,553 1,349 990 — 1,722 725 April 1978 … … 409 346 651 475 920 387 May 1978 … … 828 690 650 — 256 138 June 1978 … … 717 571 505 163 1,355 422 July 1978 … … 1,084 1,044 274 — 391 132 August 1978 … 514 499 299 — 2,366 276 September 1978 … 1,487 1,137 — — 333 135 October 1978 … 980 886 326 170 536 322 November 1978 … 1,073 803 161 30 246 116 December 1978 … 619 564 53 — 289 122 January 1979 … 780 583 — — 1,126 38 February 1979 … 721 664 411 129 174 121 March 1979 … 1,700 1,109 42 11 192 30 April 1979 … … 1,058 920 418 85 266 207 May 1979 … … 457 457 199 — 470 416 June 1979 … … 334 267 528 119 273 121 July 1979 … … 2,180 1,856 374 58 451 333 August 1979 … 714 611 108 — 707 394 September 1979 … 2,963 2,761 366 — 798 389 October 1979 … 2,003 1,483 245 — 733 416 November 1979 … 1,534 1,438 2,261 950 1,634 600 December 1979 … 1,012 632 1,937 1,223 991 276 TOTALS 26,052 21,907 11,527 3,498 18,073 6,657 * These figures are listed according to the month in which the notification was received by the Department of Employment.