§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many redundancies there have been in the United Kingdom footwear industry in each month since June up to the latest date for which a figure or an estimate is available.
§ Mr. Jim Lester[pursuant to his reply, 15 December 1980]: I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that the number of workers involved in redundancies of 10 or more confirmed as due to occur in the footwear industry between June and November 1980 is as follows:
June 407 July 691 August 452 September 622 October (provisional) 337 November (provisional) 352 These do not include figures for Northern Ireland.