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Redundancies

Volume 973: debated on Friday 16 November 1979

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Mr. Donald Stewart

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many redundancies were notified under section 100 of the Employment Protection Act in each of the last 12 months.

Mr. Jim Lester

In accordance with section 100 of the Employment Protection Act 1975, the number of proposed redundancies notified to my Department in each of the last 12 months, was as follows:

November 197837,786
December36,575
January 197945,491
February42,913
March50,114
April39,913
May35,690
June46,232
July33,519
August38,085
September43,105
October62,040
Total511,463
During the same period, notifications involving 116,956 proposed redundancies were officially withdrawn.