Redundancy
(asked on 13th January 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many proposed redundancies were indicated on HR1 forms received by the Redundancy Payments Service in each month since January 2019.
The table below sets out the volume of proposed redundancies indicated on HR1 forms received between January 2019 and December 2020:
| Volume of proposed redundancies indicated on HR1 forms received by the Redundancy Payments Service | |
| 2019 | 2020 |
Jan | 28,138 | 29,496 |
Feb | 32,189 | 27,804 |
Mar | 41,626 | 44,235 |
Apr | 85,913 | 61,502 |
May | 35,229 | 73,254 |
Jun | 23,932 | 155,576 |
Jul | 21,372 | 149,301 |
Aug | 22,581 | 57,749 |
Sep | 26,575 | 81,670 |
Oct | 23,798 | 51,351 |
Nov | 27,652 | 36,686 |
Dec | 17,412 | 23,083 |
Employers are only required to file a Form HR1 where they are “proposing” to dismiss 20 or more employees at a single “establishment”.
“Propose” and “establishment” have distinct meanings in this context.
The aggregate number could include proposed dismissals due to insolvency, restructuring of a solvent/continuing business, or proposed relocation of employees, for example.
It should be noted that a proposal to make a given number of dismissals does not necessarily result in all or any of the proposed dismissals occurring.