Redundancy

(asked on 15th June 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many advance notifications of redundancy were received by the Insolvency Service's Redundancy Payments Service in each financial year from 2019-20 to 2025-26 by (a) 20 to 50 proposed redundancies, (b) 51 to 100 proposed redundancies, (c) 101 to 250 proposed redundancies and (d) more than 250 proposed redundancies.


Answered by
Blair McDougall Portrait
Blair McDougall
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade) (Jointly with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 18th June 2026

Please see ‘advanced notifications of redundancy’ received by the Redundancy Payments Service for the requested Period.

Financial Year / Advance Notice of Redundancy

20-50

51-100

101-250

250+

2019-2020

2,174

777

420

153

2020-2021

6,989

2,127

866

358

2021-2022

1,740

581

235

96

2022-2023

2,170

689

316

90

2023-2024

2,631

923

441

132

2024-2025

2,839

897

372

113

2025-2026

2,919

992

494

159

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