To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will now publish the Government's case to the European Court of Justice concerning employee representation under the EC Collective Redundancies Directive 1975.
I refer the hon. Member to the reply that I gave him on 14 June at column 451.
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many redundancies were notified in the latest year for which figures are available, expressed as a percentage of the total work force in (a) the United Kingdom, (b) the north-west and (c) the travel-to-work areas of Accrington and Rossendale, Blackburn, Burnley and Pendle in east Lancashire.
Data on redundancies are obtained from the quarterly Labour Force Survey which provides figures for Great Britain only. Estimates of the numbers of redundancies, in the three months prior to each survey, are shown in the table. Information for travel-to-work areas is not available.
| Great Britain | Percentage of employees | North West | Percentage of employees | |
| Spring 1992 | 322,000 | 1·5 | 32,000 | 1·4 |
| Summer 1992 | 278,000 | 1·3 | 35,000 | 1·5 |
| Autumn 1992 | 310,000 | 1·4 | 29,000 | 1·2 |
| Winter 1992 | 344,000 | 1·6 | 45,000 | 1·9 |