§ Mr. Dixonasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many redundancies his Department has been notified of in the Jarrow constituency since May 1979; and how many were redundancies of men and of women, respectively.
§ Mr. Jim LesterThe number of proposed redundancies notified to my Department under the redundancy-handling provisions of the Employment Protection Act 1975 for the Jarrow constituency since May 1979 involved 1,422 employees employed at 12 establishments. During the same period, 16 redundancies at one establishment were formally withdrawn. There is no statutory requirement to notify my Department when proposed redundancies do not take place.
I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that the number of redundancies notified to it as due to 843W occur in the Jarrow constituency area since May 1979 involved 1,108 workers at four establishments.
Separate figures for men and women are not available.