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Mr. Ron Thomas
asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish figures showing the number of employees made redundant as reported to his Department since the Redundancy Payments Act 1965 and the estimated number made redundant over the same period who were not eligible for redundancy pay under the provisions of the Act and therefore not so reported.
Mr. John Fraser
Although many employers inform the employment services voluntarily of redundancies in their organisations, there is no statutory duty on them to do so. The information which is available therefore relates to those employees in respect of whom payments have been made from the Redundancy Fund, and this information is given below:
Year or period | Number of employees for whom Fund payments made | ||
6.12.65–31.12.66 | … | … | 138,895 |
1967 | … | … | 249,782 |
1968 | … | … | 264,491 |
1969 | … | … | 250,764 |
1970 | … | … | 275,563 |
1971 | … | … | 370,306 |
1972 | … | … | 297,120 |
1973 | … | … | 176,919 |
1974 | … | … | 182,161 |
1.1.75–31.3.75 | … | … | 70,657 |