§ Mr. Knoxasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many redundancies were notified to his Department for each month during the past five years.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerI am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that the number of redundancies notified to local offices of the Employment Service Agency as due to occur for each month during the past Five years is as follows: 451W
452W
Year January February March April May June July August September October November December 1972 … … … … — — — — — — — — — — — 13,539 1973 … … … … 8,629 9,258 9,093 7,321 4,605 7,588 6,704 3,660 5,863 5,026 6,901 6,721 1974 … … … … 8,783 9,891 9,554 7,934 5,960 8,879 7,691 11,076 9,148 13,854 20,968 13,625 1975 … … … … 28,193 24,108 19,824 16,360 25,343 23,378 21,271 18,848 18,234 21,043 17,512 15,804 1976 … … … … 22,943 17,105 17,549 14,205 10,914 12,294 14,066 9,290 9,892 15,770 9,682 13,226 1977 … … … … 15,833 8,639 12,244 14,888 13,510 13,218 14,646 11,881 12,886 16,678* 8,610* — * These figures are provisional.