§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many redundancies were declared in each month since May 1991.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe available information is given in the following table. Estimates from the labour force survey give the numbers of redundancies in the three months prior to each survey. The LFS moved from an annual to a quarterly survey in spring 1992.
Redundancies Spring 1991 388,000 Spring 1992 322,000 Summer 1992 278,000 Autumn 1992 310,000