§ Mr. McCartneyTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what information has been gathered through 161W surveys and on the basis of notified redundancies on how many jobs have been lost and created, together with their pay rates, in the regions of the United Kingdom in the last quarter. [21797]
§ Mr. Oppenheim[holding answer 1 May 1995]: The labour force survey is the Department's main source of information on the number of redundancies. The latest regional figures from the LFS on redundancies and the net change of numbers in employment are given in the following table. There is no information available on the pay rates of jobs lost and created. Figures for Northern Ireland are only available for the spring quarter of each year.
Not seasonally adjusted (Thousands) Region Redundancies1 Autumn 1994 Employment change summer 1994–autumn 1994 Employment change autumn 1994–winter 1994–95 Great Britain 190 18 -135 North 13 0 -23 Yorkshire and Humberside 16 24 -13 East Midlands 20 16 16 East Anglia 2— -3 0 South East 52 33 -57 South West 14 0 -25 West Midlands 17 -20 4 North West 23 -6 -18 Wales 2— -9 -15 Scotland 17 -16 -5 1 Number of redundancies that took place in the three months prior to interview. 2 Less than 10,000 in cell; estimate not shown.