§ Mr. Andrew F. Bennettasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the number of redundancies notified in the area covered by each metropolitan district council and non-metropolitan county council in England and Wales for the last three months for which figures are available.
498Wdate by average households of a man living alone; a man and woman; a man, woman and two children and a man, woman and four children, in order to maintain the average expenditure on housing, food, fuel, light, power and the other items listed in Table 49 of the Report of an Enquiry into Household Expenditure in 1953–54 published by the Ministry of Labour and National Service.
§ Mr. BoothOn the basis of the increase in the general index of retail prices over the period January 1954 to July 1975, the total expenditure by the specified households on the goods and services listed in Table 49 of the Report would have increased as follows:—
§ Mr. John FraserI am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that this information is not available in the form requested. However, records of redundancies are maintained by travel-to-work area and standard region, and when this information has been extracted I will write to my hon. Friend.