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

The number of proposed redundancies notified to my Department under the redundancy handling provisions of the Employment Protection Act 1975 for Scotland, from 1 June 1979 to 31 May 1980, is as follows :

	Employees	Establishments
1979—
June	9,621	91
July	3,495	63
August	4,628	93
September	5,472	87
October	12,557	108
November	9,618	161
December	6,570	111
1980—
January	5,850	136
February	8,061	133
March	5,311	130
April	6,695	142
May	9,794	161
Total	87,672	1,416

During the same period 17,820 redundancies at 263 establishments were formally withdrawn. There is no statutory requirement to notify my Department when proposed redundancies do not take place.I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that the number of redundancies notified to it as due to occur in Scotland from 1 June 1979 to 31 May 1980 is as follows :

	Employees
1979—
June	2,783
July	2,420
August	2,140
September	3,731
October	2,472
November	3,697
December	6,990
980—
January	2,844
February	4,163
March	5,523
April	3,190*
May	2,812*
Total	42,765
* These figures are provisional since some notifications are received late.

Both Department of Employment and Manpower Services Commission figures are for redundancies involving 10 or more employees.