§ 54. Mr. John Smithasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will state the number of notified redundancies occurring in Scotland for each month since June, 1970, until the latest convenient date.
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§ Mr. BryanThe numbers of redundancies recorded by my Department as being due to occur in the past 20 months in Scotland are as follows:
Month Numbers becoming Redundant 1970 July … … … 2,400 August … … … 2,900 September … … … 3,700 October … … … 4,300 November … … … 3,900 December … … … 2,900 1971 January … … … 4,100 February … … … 3,600 March … … … 7,200 April … … … 3,300 May … … … 3,000 June … … … 3,400 July … … … 3,600 August … … … 2,300 September … … … 3,200 October … … … 3,600 November … … … 2,000 December … … … 3,500 1972 January … … … 2,600 (provisional) February … … … 2, 000 (provisional)