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Mr. Kilroy-Silk
asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many factory closures in (a) the North West, (b) Merseyside, (c) Kirkby, and (d) Ormskirk travel-to-work areas there have been since May 1979; and how many workers were involved in each area.
Mr. Waddington
There are no comprehensive statistics on closures or redundancies. The available information on closures and associated redundancies, involving 10 or more employees, reported to the Manpower Services Commission as due to occur in each of the areas is given in the following table.
| Closures reported as due to occur, May 1979 to September 1982* | ||
| Number of Establishments | Number of Redundancies involved | |
| North West region | 1,453 | 97,498 |
| Merseyside special development area | 298 | 21,173 |
| Kirkby employment office area | 22 | 2,842 |
| Ormskirk travel-to-work area | 17 | 936 |
| * Including revised provisional figures for September 1982 | ||