HC Deb 02 June 1981 vol 5 cc322-3W
33. Mr. McNally

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many redundancies have been declared by firms engaged in the engineering industry within the metropolitan borough of Stockport between May 1979 and May 1981.

Mr. Peter Morrison

There are no comprehensive statistics of redundancies. The number of redundancies in the engineering industry*, involving 10 or more employees, so far reported to the Manpower Services Commission as due to occur in the metropolitan borough of Stockport† between May 1979 and April 1981 inclusive is 762‡.

Notes:

*Standard Industrial Classification orders VII, VIII, IX.

† Approximated by Stockport and Marple employment office areas.

‡This total includes provisional figures for March and April 1981.