Redundancy

(asked on 5th October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the total number of employees made redundant in each of the last 12 months is based on the HR1 forms that have been received by the Redundancy Payments Service.


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Paul Scully
This question was answered on 13th October 2020

Employers are required to file an HR1 Form with the Redundancy Payments Service where they are proposing to dismiss 20 or more employees at a single establishment. The Redundancy Payments Service is not notified where less than 20 dismissals may be proposed.

The HR1 Form does not detail actual redundancies made, only the numbers of dismissals proposed. The HR1 data includes proposed dismissals due to the restructuring of a solvent/continuing business and proposed dismissals where the employer is insolvent. A proposal does not necessarily result in all or any redundancies occurring.

The Redundancy Payments Service is responsible for processing redundancy payments where actual redundancies result from the insolvency of an employer or, in a small number of cases, where a solvent employer cannot or will not pay the statutory redundancy. The number of claims received by the Redundancy Payments Service in respect of employees of insolvent employers (including a small number for solvent employers), and total HR1 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 individuals claiming redundancy payments from the Redundancy Payments Service

Number of HR1 Forms received from all employers

Sep 19

9,619

303

Oct 19

9,265

343

Nov 19

5,874

305

Dec 19

5,367

196

Jan 20

7,855

372

Feb 20

7,855

329

Mar 20

14,931

485

Apr 20

8,745

447

May 20

8,745

871

Jun 20

12,045

1,888

Jul 20

9,551

1,784

Aug 20

11,894

966

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