§ Mr. DewarTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list all notified redundancies in Scotland of more than 300 employees since 1979 giving the employer, date of announcement and number of jobs lost.
§ Mr. Rifkind[holding answer 13 June 1990]: Information cannot be provided in the precise form 241W requested. The names of individual employers notifying redundancies to the Department of Employment are treated as commercial in confidence. Additionally, data on redundancies confirmed are unlikely to be complete, as employers are not obliged to advise the Department of Employment of the redundancies actually effected following notification. The remaining information sought is set out in the table.
Year Redundancies notified (300 employees or more) Number of employees Redundancies confirmed 1979 29,515 34 1 1980 19,003 28 1 1981 25,081 30 1 1982 23,292 30 1 1983 18,210 22 11,948 1984 11,243 13 7,691 1985 10,030 15 8,262 1986 8,612 17 4,370 1987 7,806 12 4,618 1988 8,121 15 2,661 1989 19,203 11 4,866 1 No information available.