§ Mr. Richard Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the number of redundancies notified to the Manpower Services Commission for each year since 1979
Redundancies confirmed as due to occur* in the selected areas from 1979 to 1983 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983† Huddersfield travel-to-work area 1,600 3,812 2,747 3,044 910 Castleford travel-to-work area‡ 111 450 1,947 1,073 1,133 Pontefract local office area 111 16 338 103 358 Normanton local office area Nil 28 65 176 124 Barnsley travel-to-work area 395 2,529 2,068 2,051 1,856 Dewsbury travel-to-work area 580 2,444 1,924 1,438 740 Wakefield travel-to-work area║ 120 478 920 1,472 1,696 Hemsworth local office 76 185 20 14 80 Notes: * Only redundancies due to occur in groups of ten or more employees are recorded. † These statistics include provisional figures for December 1983. ‡ Comprises Castleford local office area, Normanton local office area, Pontefract local office area, and Knottingly local office area. ║Comprises Wakefield local office area, Hemsworth local office area, South Elmsall local office area.