§ Mr. Rowlandsasked the Secretary of State for Wales what is the estimated number of redundancies equivalent to the number of people covered by the short-time working 138W compensation scheme in Wales which managements and unions in the firms involved have to notify in making applications for short-time working compensation.
§ Mr. Jim LesterI have been asked to reply.
Employers are required to notify my Department of redundancies affecting 10 or more people, but before payment is made under the temporary short-time working compensation scheme the redundancy notice must first be withdrawn. There were 27,152 employees in Wales working short-time, saving 11,049 potentially redundant jobs in October 1980.