§ Mr. James Lamondasked the Minister for Trade what information he has as to the number of liquidations and bankruptcies in the Oldham metropolitan district council area for each year since 1979.
§ Dr. VaughanThe nearest information on bank ruptcies is the number dealt with by the county court at Oldham as given in the following table:
Year Number of net cases 1979 12 1980 21 1981 24 1982 40 I regret that information on company liquidations by individual area is not available centrally.