§ Mr. Robert C. Brownasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many redundancies were declared in (a) Newcastle upon Tyne, (b) Tyne and Wear county and (c) the Northern region in each month from May 1979 to the latest available date.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThere are no comprehensive statistics of redundancies. The numbers of redundancies, involving 10 or more employees, reported to the Manpower Services Commission as due to occur in each month between May 1979 and March 1981 are as follows:320W
Newcastle Tyne and Wear Northern Region 1979 May 115 203 1,115 Jun 168 460 2,128 Jul 221 782 1,723 Aug 87 224 745 Sep 306 839 1,348 Oct 37 421 753 Nov 118 756 1,718 Dec 102 339 1,157 1980 Jan 34 620 2,599 Feb 477 1,939 2,540 Mar 78 326 1,571 Apr 68 921 2,150 May 73 975 2,119 Jun 128 430 2,180 Jul 225 1,114 2,625 Aug 218 1,400 3,488 Sep 300 994 5,931 Oct 196 1,918 3,524 Nov 396 2,343 4,252 Dec 210 1,436 2,972 1981 Jan 196 1,069 3,181 Feb* 202 956 4,058 Mar* 261 1,144 3,495 *Provisional Figures for February 1981 or later are not fully comparable with those for January 1981 and earlier, because of improvements in data collection designed to secure a better coverage of reported redundancies which are actually expected to take place.