PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Redundancy (21 October 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2020 to Question 98870, how many proposed redundancies were indicated on HR1 forms received by the Redundancy Payments Service in each of the last 12 months.

Asked by:
Dame Siobhain McDonagh (Labour)

Forms received from all employers where there are proposals to dismiss 20 or more employees at an establishment, over the last 12 months, are set out in the following table:

Month	Number of HR1 Forms received from all employers	Number of proposed dismissals on HR1s
Sep 19	303	26,716
Oct 19	343	23,882
Nov 19	305	27,820
Dec 19	196	16,733
Jan 20	372	29,884
Feb 20	329	28,674
Mar 20	485	44,465
Apr 20	447	62,443
May 20	871	73,331
Jun 20	1,888	155,739
Jul 20	1,784	149,688
Aug 20	966	58,056
Sep 20	1,734	82,029

Please note that employers are only required to file a Form HR1 where they are “proposing” to dismiss 20 or more employees at a single “establishment”.

“Propose” and “establishment” have distinct meanings in this context.

The aggregate number could 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.

Answered by:
Paul Scully (Conservative)
29 October 2020