AQW 4635/17-22


Mr Stewart Dickson
Alliance Party
East Antrim


Tabled Date: 09/06/2020
Answered On Date: 19/06/2020
Priority Written: No


Question:
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.


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