FOI 122: HR1 data Aug-Oct 2019/2020
Updated 15 February 2021
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By email
Our ref: FOI20/21-122
Date: 24 November 2020
Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000
Thank you for your email of 2 November 2020 in which you requested the following from the Insolvency Service:
"Please could you provide me with the following with regards to October 2020? If data for October are not yet available please could you inform me when these will be available?
- The number of HR1 advance notice of redundancy forms received in the most calendar recent month for which you have data, and for the same month in the previous year.
- The aggregate number of proposed dismissals in the most recent month for which you have data."
Your request has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
I can confirm the agency holds the information that you have requested, and the requested information on HR1 forms and potential redundancies is included in the table below.
Please note that 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, changes to terms and conditions, proposed relocation of employees etc.
It should also 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.
Please note that the figures below may differ from those previously provided. Occasionally some HR1 forms contain errors and are rejected (employer has resubmitted another form, or the form contained less than 20 proposed redundancies and so there was no requirement to notify). As a result, a small number of HR1s each month are reclassified as 'inactive' and are no longer included in figures. For this reason, we have also provided revised figures for August in the below table, in addition to those requested for September and October.
| 2019 HR1 forms received | 2019 Number of potential dismissals | 2020 HR1 forms received | 2020 Number of potential dismissals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August | 213 | 22,581 | 957 | 57,749 |
| September | 298 | 26,575 | 1,723 | 81,670 |
| October | 339 | 23,798 | 842 | 51,195 |
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Kind regards
Kiera Bain
Redundancy Payments Service
The Insolvency Service
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