Mr. Ted Fletcherasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a list of redundancies in the Northern Region that have been notified to his department in each month from 1st January, 1972, to the latest available date.
§ Mr. Chichester-ClarkInformation supplied by individual employers is often provided in confidence and I should not feel justified in publishing it. However, our records show the following numbers of redundancies notified in the Northern Region this year: January, 1,210; February, 1,770; March, 1,850; April, 1,080; May, 1,630; and June,124W 1,800. This represents 61 per cent. of total redundancies for the equivalent period last year.