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Miss Richardson
asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for each year since 1966 (a) the number of newly unemployed in receipt of a redundancy payment, (b) the percentage of all newly unemployed that number represents and (c) in current year prices, the average amount of redundancy payment received.
Mr. Jim Lester
[pursuant to his reply, 15 April 1980, c. 437]: Persons who register as unemployed are not asked whether or not they are in receipt of a statutory redundancy payment. However, the numbers of statutory payments made, and the average amount paid, in each year since 1966, adjusted for subsequent movements in the retail price index up to January 1980 are as follows:
September 65—December 66 | 138,895 | £781 |
1967 | 249,782 | 792 |
1968 | 264,491 | 881 |
1969 | 250,764 | 882 |
1970 | 275,563 | 883 |
1971 | 370,306 | 896 |
1972 | 297,120 | 939 |
1973 | 176,919 | 986 |
1974 | 181,161 | 913 |
1975 | 340,215 | 954 |
1976 | 313,728 | 942 |
1977 | 267,233 | 834 |
1978 | 255,484 | 897 |
1979 | 253,594 | 959 |