Redundancy
(asked on 24th April 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the total number of potential redundancies disclosed in HR1 forms received by his Department was in the last 12 months; and what assessment he has made of the potential impact of energy costs on those figures.
Answered by
Blair McDougall
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
In the financial year 2025/2026, the Insolvency Service recorded a total of 315,424 potential redundancies from HR1 (Advance Notice of Redundancy) forms:
April 2025 | 23,769 |
May 2025 | 24,643 |
June 2025 | 32,428 |
July 2025 | 25,162 |
August 2025 | 23,436 |
September 2025 | 24,504 |
October 2025 | 25,461 |
November 2025 | 30,396 |
December 2025 | 22,076 |
January 2026 | 28,493 |
February 2026 | 27,903 |
March 2026 | 27,153 |
No assessment of the potential impact of energy costs on those figures has been made as no specific questions about energy costs are asked on the HR1 form.