§ Mr. WeirTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many redundancies were notified, broken down by(a) constituency, (b) region and (c) country in each year since 1997. [30297]
§ Alan JohnsonThe following table shows the numbers of planned redundancies notified for each year from 1997 to 2001. Companies are required to notify only where they plan to make 20 or more people redundant. I regret there are no similar statistics for individual constituencies.
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1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Suffolk 2,868 1,903 2,415 2,469 3,261 Surrey 3,936 5,242 12,292 6,566 8,908 Sussex 2,454 3,508 2,952 4,018 1,242 Tyne and Wear 14,533 10,756 8,002 7,846 9,575 Warwickshire 1,506 4,492 8,155 7,887 5,402 West Midlands 10,019 12,040 19,024 22,399 20,444 West Sussex 902 1,824 3,068 793 6,159 Wiltshire 2,248 5,097 3,012 3,343 6,558 Yorkshire 22,005 23,338 26,764 25,065 47,075 Total 208,805 249,678 285,711 309,772 402,966 Redundancy notifications in Scotland Borders 2,305 2,060 887 542 899 Central 2,001 837 1,087 353 1,503 Dumfries and Galloway 318 1,786 1,200 2,532 619 Fife 1,464 2,805 4,011 1,709 4,148 Grampian 3,156 4,024 3,759 3,864 1,497 Highland 80 259 2,816 824 708 Highland and Island 433 223 1,937 189 275 Lanark 349 1,021 3,714 2,809 9,052 Lothian 5,322 5,516 6,623 5,800 9,301 Strathclyde 9,261 9,952 7,828 6,034 11,168 Tayside 940 638 788 594 1,516 Western Isles 0 0 0 0 82 Total 25,629 29,121 34,650 25,250 40,768 Redundancy notifications in Wales Clwyd 763 2,583 946 1,611 790 Dyfed 814 317 199 264 475 Gwent 1,991 2,396 3,663 4,833 4,723 Gwynedd 258 839 352 787 714 Mid Glamorgan 680 2,100 1,119 1,396 1,211 Powys 194 594 1,513 392 1,038 South Glamorgan 3,358 1,996 2,265 3,138 3,797 Wales 413 622 1,610 2,159 5,380 West Glamorgan 809 1,764 1,267 585 185 Total 9,280 13,211 12,934 15,165 18,313