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Redundancy

Asked by Andrew GriffithConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 18 June 2026UIN 9921

The question

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

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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