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Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 114898, tabled on 12 November 2020

Question

Lucy Powell
Labour
Manchester Central
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many proposed redundancies were indicated on HR1 forms received by the Redundancy Payments Service in October 2020.

Answer

Paul Scully
Conservative
Sutton and Cheam
Commons

Answered on

17 November 2020

Employers are required to file a form HR1 where they are proposing to dismiss 20 or more employees at a single establishment. HR1 forms received by Redundancy Payments Service during October 2020 indicated 51,195 proposed redundancies.

The aggregate number may include proposed dismissals due to insolvency, restructuring of a solvent/continuing business, changes to terms and conditions, or proposed relocation of employees, for example. It should also be noted that a proposal to make a given number of dismissals does not necessarily result in all or any of the proposed dismissals occurring.

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