HC Deb 30 April 1987 vol 115 cc210-1W
Dr. David Clark

asked the Paymaster General if he will list in the Official Report, the number of redundancies notified to his Department in the South Shields constituency in each year since 1979.

Mr. Lee

Information relating to confirmed redundancies is given in the following table:

Redundancies confirmed as due to occur in South Shields
Year Number
1979 350
1980 735
1981 702
1982 1,369
1983 521
1984 1,531
1985 405
1986 537