§ Mr. Ron Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish figures showing the number of employees made redundant as reported to his Department since the Redundancy Payments Act 1965 and the estimated number made redundant over the same period who were not eligible for redundancy pay under the provisions of the Act and therefore not so reported.
§ Mr. John FraserAlthough many employers inform the employment services voluntarily of redundancies in their organisations, there is no statutory duty on them to do so. The information which is available therefore relates to those employees in respect of whom payments have been made from the Redundancy100W Fund, and this information is given below:
Year or period Number of employees for whom Fund payments made 6.12.65–31.12.66 … … 138,895 1967 … … 249,782 1968 … … 264,491 1969 … … 250,764 1970 … … 275,563 1971 … … 370,306 1972 … … 297,120 1973 … … 176,919 1974 … … 182,161 1.1.75–31.3.75 … … 70,657 No definite information is available about redundant workers who do not qualify for statutory payments. Such information could be obtained only at unreasonable cost and would not in any case be very meaningful since it would include, inter alia, all those coming to the end of fixed-term contracts, for example seasonal workers.