§ Mr. Greville Jannerasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many prosecutions have been brought in each 803W of the years since the Employment Protection Act 1975 came into effect against employers who failed to inform his Department of proposed redundancies; how many and what percentage of such prosecutions were successful; in how many and in what percentage of such successful prosecutions the defendants were fined and what was the maximum and average of such fines; and in how many and in what percentage of such successful prosecutions redundancy rebates were reduced, and by what amounts.
Number of penalties imposed Maximum Penalty Average Penalty £ £ 1976 … … 14 548 150 1977 … … 157 1,971 141 1978 … … 287 5,036 131 1979 … … 142 827 108 The 1979 figures are provisional.