§ 24. Mr. Norman Hoggasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many redundancies in the computer and photographic manufacturing industries have been notified to his Department in the past six months.
§ Mr. GummerThere are no comprehensive statistics on redundancies. The provisional* numbers of redundancies, in groups of 10 or more employees, reported to the Manpower Services Commission as due to occur between 1 July and 31 December 1982, in the electronic computer manufacturing industry (Minimum List Heading 366 of the 1968 Standard Industrial Classification), and the photographic and document copying equipment industry (MLH 351), were 228 and 525, respectively.
* These totals include provisional figures for November and December.