§ Mr. Campbell-Savoursasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether, in the light of the publication of the document "Traineeships in West Cumbria", he will provide additional funding for the Manpower Services Commission to enable the Manpower Services Commission to develop training associations.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonI shall reply to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
Redundancies reported as due to occur - May 1979 to March 1981 South East East Anglia South West West Midlands East Midlands Yorkshire and Humberside North West North Wales Scotland 1979 May 4,576 56 709 1,526 570 1,443 2,279 1,030 702 2,277 June 1,678 80 1,401 919 226 646 3,177 2,401 661 2,783 July 1,549 182 904 1,794 401 595 2,026 1,627 905 2,420 August 1,083 77 355 1,173 102 1,375 2,119 678 520 2,140 September 2,105 208 2,356 2,667 685 2,665 3,943 1,363 1,122 3,731 October 1,645 336 1,132 1,743 889 1,493 2,257 880 1,261 2,472 November 2,854 360 1,060 1,728 1,082 2,013 4,422 1,869 1,285 3,697 December 2,997 623 953 2,663 2,476 2,839 6,055 1,175 1,444 6,990 1980 January 4,885 209 1,542 2,601 2,696 2,617 4,151 1,866 1,276 2,844 February 5,621 269 898 3,202 3,353 2,371 5,549 2,508 3,500 4,163 March 6,306 341 2,182 3,708 3,594 3,001 6,595 1,541 4,175 5,523 April 3,746 217 1,838 4,225 2,545 1,556 6,576 2,086 2,141 3,292 May 5,209 335 1,808 4,667 3,546 3,620 6,936 2,055 3,209 3,904 June 4,875 591 1,814 3,963 2,903 3,369 6,922 1,824 3,471 5,551 July 4,870 520 2,057 6,136 2,754 5,061 6,838 2,344 8,071 6,544 August 7,690 802 2,886 9,995 3,942 6,193 9,740 2,839 3,453 5,933 September 5,010 670 2,349 7,266 3,402 5,415 7,143 5,600 5,085 5,054 October 7,028 759 3,523 8,673 4,264 6,651 10,395 3,507 3,571 4,963 November 7,031 888 3,178 7,399 4,485 5,932 12,071 4,234 3,749 4,748 December 4,625 1,953 2,523 7,601 3,473 5,093 9,680 2,872 3,514 5,249 1981 January 4,148 1,511 3,426 4,737 2,759 5,104 8,669 3,181 3,460 4,324 February* 4,948 692 3,365 3,509 3,212 4,552 8,405 4,658 2,889 3,698 March* 9,367 599 4,149 3,494 2,662 6,088 6,451 3,495 4,338 4,298 * Provisional Note: Figures for February 1981 and later are not fully comparable with those for January 1981 and earlier because of improvements in data collection designed to secure a better coverage of reported redundancies which are actually expected to take place.