HC Deb 09 April 1981 vol 2 cc319-20W
Mr. Robert C. Brown

asked 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 Morrison

There 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:

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.