HC Deb 02 December 1982 vol 33 cc251-2W
Mr. Skinner

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the number of redundancies in the following industries during the last 12 months (a) steel, (b) oil, (c) food and (d) engineering.

Mr. Waddington

Not all the information is available in the form requested. There are no comprehensive statistics on redundancies, and the industrial classification used for redundancy statistics does not permit the figures to be broken down into exactly the industries requested, except at disproportionate cost.

The available information on the number of redundancies, involving 10 or more employees, notified to the Manpower Services Commission as due to occur during the last 12 months in these industries in Great Britain, is given in the following table.

Northern Region: Unemployment—January 1979 to October 1982
Unadjusted Including School Leavers Seasonally Adjusted Excluding School Leavers
New Basis (Claimants) Old basis (Registrations) New Basis(Claimants) Old Basis (Registrations)
Number (000's) Percentage of all Employees Number (000's) Percentage of all Employees Number (000's) Percentage of all Employees Number (000's) Percentage of all Employees
1979
January 117.5 8.6 121.6 8.9 108.4 8.0 111.0 8.1
February 117.1 8.6 121.3 8.8 110.3 8.1 112.5 8.2
March 113.6 8.3 117.8 8.6 110.3 8.1 112.2 8.2
April 108.7 8.0 113.2 8.3 107.1 7.9 110.0 8.0
May 105.3 7.7 109.6 8.0 106.6 7.8 108.8 7.9
June 111.5 8.2 119.1 8.7 106.1 7.8 108.6 7.9
July 120.2 8.8 127.8 9.3 106.1 7.8 109.0 8.0
August 118.6 8.7 125.0 9.1 105.2 7.7 108.1 7.9
September 115.0 8.4 120.3 8.8 105.7 7.8 109.1 8.0
October 112.0 8.2 117.2 8.5 106.6 7.8 109.5 8.0
November 111.9 8.2 117.0 8.5 107.0 7.9 110.0 8.0
December 112.6 8.3 117.7 8.6 107.8 7.9 111.3 8.1
1980
January 120.9 9.0 125.8 9.3 110.0 8.2 113.1 8.3
February 122.3 9.1 128.0 9.4 113.6 8.4 117.1 8.6
March 121.5 9.0 127.1 9.4 116.6 8.6 119.7 8.8
April 126.9 9.4 132.3 9.7 121.3 9.0 124.2 9.2
May 123.6 9.2 128.9 9.5 123.5 9.2 126.2 9.3
June 133.9 9.9 142.7 10.5 126.0 9.3 128.8 9.5
July 148.2 11.0 157.2 11.6 130.1 9.7 133.8 9.9
August 152.9 11.3 160.7 11.8 135.4 10.0 138.7 10.2
September 154.9 11.5 161.8 11.9 139.2 10.3 143.5 10.6
October 153.8 11.4 160.9 11.9 143.4 10.6 147.4 10.9
November 161.2 12.0 168.3 12.4 152.2 11.3 156.7 11.5
December 168.8 12.5 175.9 13.0 160.5 11.9 165.3 12.2
1981
January 180.3 13.8 187.4 14.1 165.5 12.6 170.3 12.8
February 181.3 13.8 188.7 14.2 169.4 12.9 173.7 13.0
March 181.0 13.8 188.1 14.1 173.5 13.2 177.3 13.3
April 181.9 13.9 189.1 14.2 175.7 13.4 180.4 13.5
May 183.7 14.0 190.9 14.3 179.9 13.7 184.4 13.8
June 181.9 13.9 202.7 15.2 182.3 13.9 187.0 14.0

Redundancies Reported as due to Occur, November 1981 to October 1982*, in Selected Manufacturing Industries in Great Britain
Number
Iron and Steel Manufacturing (MLH 311–313) 18,917
Other Mining and Quarrying (MLH 102–109) 1,388
Mineral Oil Refining Lubricating Oils and Greases (MLH 262–3) 1,569
Food (MLH 211–229) 14,704
Engineering (Orders VII-X) 77,690
Notes:

* Including provisional figures for September and October 1982.

No finer industry breakdown is available, except at disproportionate cost.

This includes natural gas extraction and all other quarrying and mining, except for coal, as well as oil and petroleum extraction. No finer breakdown is available except at disproportionate cost.

These figures, for food manufacturing, do not include the distribution and serving of food.