§ Mr. Cartwrightasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many workers in the Greater London area were covered by the temporary short-time working compensation scheme at the most recent convenient date; how many potentially redundant jobs were being saved as a result; and how these figures compare with those at the same date in the previous year.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonIn the Greater London area at 31 January 1981, 11,409 workers were sharing short-time working under the temporary short-time working compensation scheme in order to save 4,810 potentially redundant jobs.
Because of changes made from 1 April 1980 in the method of calculating the number of people helped under the scheme it is not possible to give comparable figures for January 1980. However, at 30 April 1980 there were 818 workers sharing short-time in order to save 631 potentially redundant jobs in the Greater London area.