§ Mr. Ernie Rossasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the percentage of people becoming 387W unemployed in both the United Kingdom as a whole and in Scotland who did not receive statutory redundancy payment in each of the past three years.
§ Mr. NewtonI regret that information is not available in the form requested by the hon. Member. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment has, for Great Britain and for Scotland, estimates of numbers of registrations as unemployed in each year—in which the same individual may be counted more than once—and the numbers of people receiving statutory redundancy payments. But information about redundancy payments is not collected from registrants; and not all those who get redundancy payments necessarily become unemployed.