AQW 4635/17-22 Written question to the Minister for the Economy
To ask the Minister for the Economy for a weekly breakdown of the number redundancies and redundancy consultations, notified to the Department since the beginning of 2020.
Asked by Stewart Dickson MLA on 9 June 2020
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 9 June 2020
- Answer due by
- 24 June 2020
- Answered
- 19 June 202010 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for the Economy
- Priority question
- No
Answer
The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) collects redundancy notifications on behalf of the Department for the Economy. Since the beginning of January 2020, the Department has been notified of 3530 proposed redundancies, originating from 33 different notifications. The table below gives a breakdown of these notifications over the year to date. In order to preserve confidentiality, data has been combined into 4 week bands so that no individual returns can be identified.
| Date HR1 received | Number of notifications received | Number of redundancies proposed |
| 28th Dec 19 - 24 Jan 20 | 3 | 424 |
| 25 Jan 20 - 21 Feb 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 Feb 20 - 20 Mar 20 | 5 | 584 |
| 21 Mar 20 - 17 Apr 20 | 5 | 784 |
| 18 Apr 20 - 15 May 20 | 5 | 204 |
| 16 May 20 - 12 Jun 20 | 15 | 1534 |
| 33 | 3530 |