§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many former registered dock workers have been made redundant on a port-by-port basis since the abolition of the dock labour scheme; how much the Government have contributed to the redundancy payments; how many of these redundancies are because firms went into liquidation and how many through shedding of labour; how many stevedoring firms have gone into liquidation and where; what is his estimate of the cost of further redundancies on both these bases still to come; and if he will make a statement on the liquidations.
§ Mr. McLoughlinTotal Government expenditure to date on compensation under the Dock Work Act 1989 is £84.5 million, of which £27.7 million relates to employees of firms which became insolvent. I am not able to forecast the numbers of redundancies or any insolvencies during the remaining period of the compensation scheme, but over 90 per cent, of the claims so far received were in the first three months since the scheme started in July. The table shows redundancies in each port.
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Port Total redundancies Number of employers who became insolvent Resulting redundancies (including in first column) Aberdeen 149 2 149 Ardrossan 15 — — Ayr 14 — — Barry 21 — — Bristol 62 — — Blyth 32 — — Boston 28 — — Cardiff 160 — — Charlestown 1 — — Clyde 108 — — Dundee 95 1 95 Falmouth 7 — — Fleetwood 44 — — Forth 152 — — Fowey 44 — — Garston 108 1 29 Goole 78 — — Grimsby and Immingham 511 3 374 Great Yarmouth 101 1 101 Hull 314 — — Ipswich 50 — — Kings Lynn 41 — — Liverpool 402 1 69 London 748 1 40 Lowestoft 27 — — Manchester 116 — — Medway 42 — — Newport 84 — — Par 28 — — Penzance 7 — — Plymouth 16 — — Port Talbot 4 — — Seaham 10 — —
Port Total redundancies Number of employers who became insolvent Resulting redundancies (including in first column) Sharpness 2 — — Silloth 1 — — Southampton 250 — — Sunderland 31 — — Swansea 79 — — Tees and Hartlepool 252 — — Tyne 59 — — Weymouth 4 — — Wisbech 11 1 11 Workington 10 — — 4,318 11 868