§ Mr. Cryerasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) how many redundancy notifications were given during December and January 1983 to the most recent practicable date in the Keighley travel-to-work area;
(2) how many redundancies in (a) the textile industry, (b) machine tool engineering, (c) general engineering, (d) service trades and (e) steel fabrication work have been made in the Keighley travel-to-work area since May 1979.
§ Mr. GummerThere are no comprehensive statistics of redundancies. The provisional number of redundancies in the Keighley travel-to-work area, involving 10 or more employees, notified to the manpower services commission as due to occur during December 1982 was 94. Figures for 339W January 1983 are not yet available. The number of redundancies, involving 10 or more employees, reported as due to occur in the Keighley travel-to-work area, in the industries specified between May 1979 and December 1982* is as follows:
Redundancies Textiles (Order XIII) 1,019 Machine Tool engineering (MLH 332) 381 Mechanical Engineering (Order VII) 634 Service Industries (Transport Distributive Trades, Financial Services, Professional and Scientific Services, Public Administration, and Miscellaneous Services, (Orders XXII-XXVII) 14 Steel Manufacture (MLH 311) nil * This includes provisional figures for December 1982.