HC Deb 16 November 1979 vol 973 cc789-90W
Mr. Donald Stewart

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many redundancies were notified under section 100 of the Employment Protection Act in each of the last 12 months.

Mr. Jim Lester

In accordance with section 100 of the Employment Protection Act 1975, the number of proposed redundancies notified to my Department in each of the last 12 months, was as follows:

November 1978 37,786
December 36,575
January 1979 45,491
February 42,913
March 50,114
April 39,913
May 35,690
June 46,232
July 33,519
August 38,085
September 43,105
October 62,040
Total 511,463

During the same period, notifications involving 116,956 proposed redundancies were officially withdrawn.