§ Mr. Barry JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the companies, and the numbers involved, which have ceased trading, gone into receivership and announced redundancies in each of the counties of Wales since 1 June 1990.
§ Mr. David HuntFigures for company failures are maintained and published by the Department of Trade and Industry on an England and Wales basis. Separate official figures for Wales are not available. Provisional figures provided by the Department of Employment on notified redundancies in Wales during the period June to December 1990 are as follows:
Numbers South Glamorgan 500 Mid Glamorgan 1,520 West Glamorgan 560 Gwent 911 Dyfed 137 Clwyd 520 Gwynedd 67 Powys 46 Wales 4,261 Over the same period, Welsh Development International recorded 83 new inward investment projects for Wales promising capital investment of £327 million and more than 5,000 new jobs.