§ Mr. Georgeasked the Secretary of State for Employment what were the numbers of people receiving redundancy payments for each year since the scheme's inception; if he will express these totals as a percentage of redundancies: and if he will list the average size of payments for each of the years.
§ Mr. John FraserThe following information relates to employees in respect 45W of whom payments were made from the Redundancy Fund during each year:
Calendar year Number of employees Average payment to the employees £ 6th December 1965 to 31st December 1966 138,895 192 1967 249,782 201 1963 264,491 234 1969 250,764 247 1970 275,563 263 1971 370,306 292 1972 297,120 328 1973 176,919 376 1st January 1974 to 30th September 1974 124,403 376 Information about employees who did not qualify for a payment under the Redundancy Payments Act 1965 is not available and it is not therefore possible to express these totals as a percentage of redundancies.