Redundancy

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what estimate he has made of the (a) number of people made redundant, (b) number of statutory redundancy payments made and (c) average value of statutory redundancy payments in each (i) month of the last five years for which figures are available and (ii) year since 1997. (252919)

The information is provided in the following tables.

(a) The Office for National Statistics’ survey the number of people made redundant in the last three months in their quarterly Labour Force Survey. The following two tables show this information on a quarterly basis over the last five years and over the calendar year since 1997.

*Quarterly UK redundancy numbers (ILO definition)*
	Quarter	Number (Thousand)
2004	Q1	139
	Q2	148
	Q3	133
	Q4	144
Total		564

2005	Q1	134
	Q2	131
	Q3	160
	Q4	146
Total		571

2006	Q1	142
	Q2	139
	Q3	137
	Q4	134
Total		552

2007	Q1	145
	Q2	121
	Q3	129
	Q4	111
Total		506

2008
	Q1	111
	Q2	127
	Q3	156
	Q4	259
Total		653
Source: ONS Labour Market Statistics (BEAO)

*Annual UK redundancy numbers (ILO definition)*
	Number (Thousand)
1997	620
1998	677
1999	712
2000	677
2001	709
2002	741
2003	630
2004	564
2005	571
2006	552
2007	506
2008	653
Source: ONS Labour Market Statistics (BEAO)

(b) and (c) no information is held on statutory redundancy payments made or the average value of payments.

Volume 489: debated on Wednesday 11 March 2009