HC Deb 26 July 1985 vol 83 c804W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many redundancies were notified to his Department in the Grimsby travel-to-work area in each year from 1979.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

The available information relating to confirmed redundancies, is given in the following table:

Redundancies* confirmed as due to occur in the Grimsby jobcentre area†—1979 to June 1985
Number
1979 nil
1980 1,005
1981 1,886
1982 880
1983 1,436
1984 1,081
1985‡ 78
* Confirmed by the Manpower Services Commission as due to occur and based on notifications of impending redundancies involving ten or more workers.
† The Grimsby jobcentre area approximates very closely to the Grimsby travel-to-work area.
‡ January to June. Includes provisional figures for May and June 1985.