PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Redundancy (11 December 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 (a) October and (b) November 2020.

Asked by:
Dame Siobhain McDonagh (Labour)

The table below sets out the number of HR 1 forms received in October and November 2020, and the number of proposed dismissals indicated on those forms:

Month	Number of HR1 forms received	Number of proposed dismissals on HR1s
Oct 20	844	51,351
Nov 20	552	36,686

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, or proposed relocation of employees, for example.

It should 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)
21 December 2020