asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list in the Official Report the number of notified redundancies and closures of firms in the Northern region in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available.

	Proposed redundancies (including closures)		Closures
	Employees	Establishments	Employees	Establishments
1979—
June	2,252	38	259	6
July	2,871	57	309	12
August	2,002	41	453	10
September	5,079	59	1,156	20
October	3,624	78	701	17
November	3,545	60	837	18
December	5,358	74	618	19
1980—
January	7,178	132	1,706	23
February	6,390	106	2,444	27
March	6,230	109	780	21
April	6,882	90	1,491	27
May	9,045	107	2,944	33
Total	60,456	951	13,698	233

During the same period, 12,198 redundancies at 122 establishments were formally withdrawn. There is no statutory requirement to notify the Department

I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that the information is as follows:

The number of proposed redundancies notified to my Department under the redundancy handling provisions of the Employment Protection Act 1975, including closures, in the Northern region, in each of the last 12 months is as follows: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 occur in the Northern region in each the last 12 months is as follows:

	Employees
1979—
June	2,401
July	1,627
August	678
September	1,363
October	880
November	1,869
December	1,175
1980—
January	1,866
February	2,508
March	1,541
April	2,074*
May	1,677*
Total	19,659
*These figures are provisional since some notifications are received late.

	January	February	March	April	May
Scotland	5,850	8,061	5,311	6,695	9,794
	(5,766)	(5,363)	(6,404)	(5,712)	(5,298)
Northern	7,178	6,390	6,230	6,882	9,045
	(8,184)	(1,028)	(4,246)	(2,799)	(3,219)
North-West	12,186	12,339	11,689	15,168	15,509
	(8,403)	(9,389)	(8,835)	(5,800)	(4,960)
Yorkshire and Humberside	7,150	8,415	9,789	8,735	12,410
	(4,575)	(3,460)	(5,705)	(4,679)	(4,580)
Midlands	11,631	14,757	17,601	17,537	25,250
	(8,144)	(9,310)	(9,221)	(10,074)	(5,845)
Wales	13,881	7,763	6,948	4,717	5,192
	(1,883)	(1,478)	(3,552)	(1,778)	(1,236)
South-West	3,760	3,198	2,341	2,469	5,707
	(1,883)	(2,777)	(2,400)	(1,503)	(2,054)
London	6,816	6,341	6,003	8,328	7,586
	(3,166)	(4,066)	(4,377)	(5,119)	(4,187)
South-East	7,938	10,775	6,834	4,914	7,811
	(3,487)	(6,042)	(5,374)	(2,449)	(4,311)
Great Britain Totals	76,390	78,039	72,756	75,445	98,304
	(45,491)	(42,913)	(50,114)	(39,913)	(35,690)

During the same periods the following redundancies were formally withdraw:

Scotland	5,740 (5,855)
Northern	8,626 (3,576)
North-West	17,733 (7,978)
York & Humberside	12,770 (8,396)
Midlands	18,556 (14,756)
Wales	8,420 (3,177)
South-West	1,516 (3,235)
London	1,488 (2,508)
South-East	6,801 (6,335)