§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report the numbers of factories in Liverpool, Manchester, Preston, Kirkby and Ormskirk which have notified redundancies in the past 12 months of over 50 people, together with the numbers involved in respect of each factory.
§ Mr. Jim Lester[pursuant to his reply, 18 March 1980, c. 23]: The information requested is not readily available and can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
However, I can give the figures for the North-West region as a whole. I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that the number of workers involved in redundancies affecting 10 or more employees and notified as due to occur in the North-West region over the past 12 months was 43,887.
The number of proposed redundancies notified to the Department over the past 12 months under the redundancy handling provisions of the Employment Protection Act 1975 for the North-West region was 96,189 involving 1,625 firms. During the same period 27,105 redundancies at 400 firms were formally withdrawn.