§ Mr. Campbell-Savoursasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) how many redundancies in (a) the textile industry, (b) machine tool engineering, (c) general engineering, (d) service trades and (e) steel fabrication work were made in the last month for which statistics are available in the Workington travel-to-work area;
(2) how many redundancy notifications were given during the last month for which statistics are available in the Workington travel-to-work area.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkSixteen* redundancies were confirmed as due to occur in the Workington travel-to-work area during May 1984, the latest month for which statistics are available, all of them in electrical and electronic engineering (Class 34 on the 1980 standard industrial classification). There were five advance notifications of redundancies in June involving 304 redundancies.
* Provisional.