§ Miss Maynardasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many agricultural workers have been made redundant since December 1982; and whether levels of redundancies among employees of vegetable producers and among other particular groups have been significantly higher than the average.
§ Mr. GummerA total of 452 redundancies were recorded as due to occur among workers in the agriculture, forestry and fishing industries (MLH 001–003) between December 1982 and May 1983*. Redundancy rates in these industries are well below the average for the economy as a whole.
* This includes provisional estimates for April and May 1983. Figures for agricultural workers alone are not available.