§ Rev. William McCreaasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many redundancies have been registered in (a) Mid-Ulster and (b) Northern Ireland in each of the last five years.
§ Mr. ButlerInformation on persons who qualified for statutory redundancy payments in Mid-Ulster and Northern Ireland is as follows:
Mid-Ulster* Northern Ireland 1979 215 6,527 1980 193 10,550 1981 519 20,001 1982 445 14,829 1983 369 11,183 * (Cookstown, Omagh and Stabane travel-to-work areas) Notes: These statistics have been revised to take account of changes in 339W collection procedures and may differ from previously published figures. These figures are not comparable with those for Great Britain which relate to confirmed redundancies.