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Redundancy

Volume 489: debated on Tuesday 10 March 2009

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what estimate he has made of the number of (a) women and (b) men who were made redundant in each of the last four quarters for which figures are available. (262425)

The level of redundancies, split by gender, in the United Kingdom in each of the previous four quarters is given in the following table.

Redundancy levels

Thousand

2008

Male

Female

Total

Q1

75

36

111

Q2

76

51

127

Q3

91

65

156

Q4

177

82

259

Source:

Labour Force Survey, ONS