Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many employers have notified the Redundancy Payments Service of planned redundancies in the last 12 months.

Employers are required by law to notify the Secretary of State, in practice the Insolvency Service’s Redundancy Payments Service (RPS),of any proposal to dismiss 20 or more employees as redundant at one establishment within a period of 90 days or less. This advanced notification is normally via the ‘HR1’ form.

For the period 1 February 2022 to 31 January 2023, RPS received HR1s from 2,376 employers.

The Insolvency Service publishes figures regarding advanced notification of redundancy at the following link: advanced notification.