§ Mr. Laurance Reedasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list all the closures that are known to his Department to have taken place in Bolton during the past 24 months, naming the 99W companies and the total number of redundancies in each case.
§ Mr. BryanMy Department is aware of 15 closures which took place in the Bolton Employment Exchange area during 1970 and 1971, involving a total of about 1,940 redundancies. Information supplied by individual employers is often provided in confidence, and I should not feel justified in publishing it.