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Mr. Clapham
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what has been the estimated total number of redundancies in the United Kingdom since 1979.
Miss Widdecombe
The Department's main source of redundancy statistics is the Labour Force Survey. This survey gives the numbers of redundancies that took place in the three months prior to interview. The extent of the available information is given in the following table:
Redundancies (not seasonally adjusted): Labour Force Survey, Great Britain | |
Numbers | |
Spring 1989 | 142,000 |
Spring 1990 | 181,000 |
Spring 1991 | 388,000 |
Spring 1992 | 322,000 |
Summer 1992 | 278,000 |
Autumn 1992 | 310,000 |
Winter 1992 | 344,000 |
Employment Gazette.