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Redundancies

Volume 228: debated on Monday 12 July 1993

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To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what has been the estimated total number of redundancies in the United Kingdom since 1979.

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 1989142,000
Spring 1990181,000
Spring 1991388,000
Spring 1992322,000
Summer 1992278,000
Autumn 1992310,000
Winter 1992344,000
The main source of data prior to 1989, is the confirmed redundancy series. However, this series was discontinued because it proved to be an unreliable indicator of the actual number of redundancies taking place. The series was last published in tables 2·30 and 2·31 of the September 1992

Employment Gazette.