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Redundancy Payments

Volume 982: debated on Thursday 17 April 1980

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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.

[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 66138,895£781
1967249,782792
1968264,491881
1969250,764882
1970275,563883
1971370,306896
1972297,120939
1973176,919986
1974181,161913
1975340,215954
1976313,728942
1977267,233834
1978255,484897
1979253,594959