§ Mr. Peter Bruinvelsasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many redundancies there have been in the United Kingdom footwear industry in each month for the past three years.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe figures for Great Britain are given in the following table. Comparable figures for Northern Ireland are not available.
Redundancies confirmed as due to occur* in footwear industry: 1981 to 1984 1981 1982 1983 †l984 January 238 136 585 464 February 424 835 138 366 March 269 28 97 ‡715 April 199 109 124 ‡540 May 422 581 123 June 252 216 66 July 624 258 111 August 345 914 23 September 367 429 97 October 600 520 83 November 368 419 46 December 593 228 60 Notes:
* Redundancies involving fewer than 10 employees are excluded.
† Owing to a change of classification, separate redundancies statistics for the footwear industry are not available from January 1984. Figures are given for leather, footwear and clothing combined.
‡ Provisional.