§ 20. Mr. Foulkesasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people are currently on short-time working.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonStatistics of short-time working are available only for operatives in manufacturing346W industries. In the week ended 11 April 1981 there were 434,000 operatives on short-time working, either for the whole or part of the week, in Great Britain.
§ Mr. Duffyasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many employees were working short-time under the temporary short-time working compensation scheme during April 1981 in the Barnsley, Bradford, Doncaster, Kirklees, North Humberside, Leeds, Rotherham, Wakefield, and York metropolitan districts.
§ Mr. Peter Morrison[pursuant to his reply, 29 June 1981]: Statistics for the areas requested are available only as shown in the following table, as we do not have figures for metropolitan districts showing these places individually. The employees shown in the table were in jobs that were potentially redundant covered by applications current in April 1981.
Number of potentially redundant employees covered by applications current in April 1981 Area Number Barnsley Travel-to-work area 1,244 Bradford Travel-to-work area 6,521 Doncaster Travel-to-work area 3,887 Kirklees Local Authority District 6,835 North Humberside 6,706 Leeds Travel-to-work area 7,806 Rotherham Employment Office area 4,001 Wakefield Travel-to-work area 1,876 York Employment Office area 1,763