§ Mr. Parkasked the Secretary of State for Employment what were the numbers of workers involved in redundancies in the recorded closures of manufacturing industrial establishments in each of the last three years, and to the latest available date.
§ Mr. Jim LesterNo separate records are kept of the numbers of workers involved in redundancies arising from the closure of establishments. The Manpower Services Commission has informed me that the number of workers involved in all redundancies of 10 or more notified as due to occur in manufacturing industries in the last three years were as follows:
Redundancies involving 139,219 workers in manufacturing industries have so far been notified as due to occur between January and June 1980.
1977 99,076 1978 119,315 1979 140,809