Mr. Jim Callaghanasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the latest total of unemployed people in the Manchester county area whose last employment was in the building industry.
§ Mr. Jim LesterAt 8 May, the latest date for which an industrial analysis of the unemployed is available, the number of people registered as unemployed in the Greater Manchester metropolitan county who last worked in the construction industry was 9,441.
§ Mr. Kaufmanasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many redundancies have taken place or been announced in (a) Greater Manchester and (b) the city of Manchester since 4 May 1979.
§ Mr. Jim Lester[pursuant to his reply, 1 July 1980]: From 4 May 1979 to 7 July 1980 proposed redundancies affecting 60,237 employees in Greater Manchester and 10,288 in the city of Manchester were 168W notified to my Department in accordance with section 100 of the Employment Protection Act 1975. I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that over the same period the provisional totals of redundancies reported by its local offices as due to occur in Greater Manchester and the city of Manchester were 29,710 and 5,791 respectively. These figures should be treated with caution for reasons explained in the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Hands-worth (Miss Wright) on 30 June. [Vol. 987, c. 383–4].