§ Mr. John Evansasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many firms have notified his Department of redundancies and cited loss of orders from Argentina or other South American countries as a factor in the redundancies; and if he will name the firms and the total number of redundancies involved.
§ Mr. WaddingtonI am aware of only one such case, involving 60 proposed redundancies. Information given to my Department under section 100 of the Employment Protection Act 1975 is given in confidence.
§ Mr. Robert Sheldonasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report figures giving the numbers of redundancies notified in the Ashton-under-Lyne travel-to-work area in the years 1979, 1980 and 1981 in total and subdivided by standard industrial classification order.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThere are no comprehensive statistics of redundancies. The numbers of redundancies, in groups of 10 or more employees, reported to the Manpower Services Commission as due to occure in the Ashton-under-Lyne travel-to-work area in 1979, 1980 and 1981 are shown, in total and by Standard Industrial Classification Order, in the following table:
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SIC Order Industry 1979 1980 1981 I Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing — — — II Mining and Quarrying — — — III Food, Drink and Tobacco 186 48 231 IV Coal and Petroleum Products — — —
SIC Order Industry 1979 1980 1981 V Chemicals and Allied Industries 21 104 39 VI Metal Manufacture 147 72 158 VII Mechanical Engineering 167 343 617 VIII Instrument Engineering — — 17 IX Electrical Engineering — 875 593 X Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering — — — XI Vehicles — 154 94 XII Metal Goods not elsewhere specified — 753 60 XIII Textiles 425 1,233 201 XIV Leather, Leather Goods and Fur — 95 — XV Clothing and Footwear 47 607 130 XVI Bricks, Pottery, Glass, Cement etc. — — 35 XVII Timber, Furniture etc. — 60 111 XVIII Paper, Printing and Publishing 71 128 140 XIX Other Manufacturing Industries — 158 115 XX Construction — 102 190 XXI Gas, Electricity and Water — — — XXII Transport and Communication — — — XXIII Distributive Trades — — — XXIV Insurance, Banking, Finance and Business Services 35 177 390 XXV Professional and Scientific Services — — — XXVI Miscellaneous Services — — — XXVII Public Administration and Defence — — — All Industries and Services 1,099 4,909 3,121