§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Employment how redundancy pay is classified as a source of income in the Family Expenditure Survey; and whether he will separately identify the average weekly amount received by households which were in receipt of such payments for each of the last five years.
§ Mr. Jim Lester[pursuant to his reply, 12 December 1980]: Redundancy pay is identified as an additional receipt, outside the defnition of gross normal weekly income used by the family expenditure survey. The amounts received under the redundancy payments provisions of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 in the preceding 12 months by households in the survey for the years 1975 to 1979 were as follows:
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Receipts of redundancy payments in the twelve months preceding survey interview Average weekly equivalent (£) per receiving household Year £ 1975 12.47 1976 12.50 1977 10.62 1978 17.54 1979 22.20
Percentage of households receiving such payments Year Per cent. 1975 1.1 1976 1.7 1977 1.1 1978 1.2 1979 0.9