§ Mr. Kinnockasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a list of all firms which declared redundancies in travel-to-work areas throughout the County of Monmouthshire in the last two quarters of 1970 and the first quarter of 1971, specifying the numbers involved in each case.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithI would refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave him on 22nd March, when I pointed out that information supplied by individual employers is usually provided for official use only and that I would not be justified in publishing it. However, the following redundancies were recorded by my Department in travel-to-work areas in Monmouthshire during the last two quarters of 1970 and the first quarter of 1971:
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Period Number of Firms Notifying Redundancies Number of Work-People Involved 1st July to 30th September, 1970 8 627 1st October to 31st December, 1970 7 871 1st January to 31st March, 1971 26 1,327 area the total numbers of men registered as unemployed, the numbers of those who were wholly unemployed, the numbers of notified vacancies for men remaining unfilled and the numbers of notified vacancies per 100 wholly unemployed men: