§ Mr. Woofasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people over 50 years of age made redundant received redundancy payments in the years 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1971, respectively; and how many remained unemployed for more than six months.
§ Mr. BryanPrecise figures by age are not available. Among recipients of redundancy payments in respect of which payments were made from the Redundancy Fund each year, the percentages aged 50 and over were approximately as follows:
Total number of payments Percentage of recipients aged 50 or over 1968 … … 264,491 43.2 1969 … … 250,764 43.3 1970 … … 275,563 42.3 1971 … … 370,306 41.6 I regret that information is not available about the numbers who remained unemployed for more than six months.
§ Mr. Woofasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people over 55 years of age in the Blaydon employment area received redundancy payments for the years 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1971, respectively; and how many remained unemployed for more than three months.
§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment what formal arrangements exist between himself and public corporations to ensure that he is given very early notification of any Scottish redundancies in State-owned industries.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithThere is very close co-operation between my Department and the sponsoring Departments about significant prospective redundancies in the nationalised industries. These arrangements cover the whole of Great Britain.