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A 6,750-Vehicle Fleet Firm Ran Out of Road. HMRC Had Already Filed to Wind It Up.
Administrators were appointed to the Stevenage contract-hire firm on 15 October, after HMRC filed a winding-up petition and no buyer came forward for the business as a going concern. 136 of its staff were made redundant on the spot.
Big Motoring World Is Building Its 12th Used Car Supermarket in Coventry. It Says More Than 100 Jobs Come With It.
An 11-acre brownfield site on Old Church Road, vacant for three years, is becoming a used car supermarket with room for 550 vehicles. The company says it will employ more than 100 people once it opens in early 2027. Nobody has checked that figure yet, because the site has not opened.
The BBC Is Merging Its Comedy, Arts and Classical Commissioning Teams. A Seventh Round of Cuts Goes With It.
BBC content chief Kate Phillips is combining television and audio commissioning for comedy, arts and classical music from January 2027, cutting around 100 roles along the way. That is the seventh departmental slice of the corporation-wide cuts programme this ledger has logged since August, now totalling 541 against the BBC's own 2,000 ceiling.
Close Brothers Cut 600 Jobs Over a Car Loans Scandal in March. Some Coverage Has Spent Seven Months Making It an AI Story.
The merchant bank set aside GBP300 million for the motor finance mis-selling scandal and said it would cut a quarter of its workforce. Its own announcement named AI as one of four cost measures, alongside outsourcing, offshoring and office cuts. Commentary sites have spent the following seven months running headlines that make AI sound like the whole story.
The Telegraph Is Cutting Up to 100 Jobs. Its New Owner Blames the Old Ownership, Not the New AI Strategy.
Axel Springer, the German publisher that completed its takeover of the Telegraph in June, told staff this week that up to 100 jobs are going. Chief executive Carolin Hulshoff Pol wants the paper known as "AI-powered". The reason she gave for these particular cuts is not AI: it is the ownership saga that came before her.
Rheinmetall Promised Telford 100 Jobs for Its New Gun Hall. It Currently Employs 35 People There.
Britain is producing artillery gun barrels again for the first time in twenty years. The company and the Defence Secretary both used the figure of 100 jobs at the opening. Today the Gun Hall employs 35 people.
FinTrU Is Cutting 114 More Jobs in Belfast and Derry. It Is the Third Round From the Same Company in Under a Year.
FinTrU proposed 95 redundancies in Belfast and 19 in Derry this week, its third round of cuts since late 2025. The union says staff have been told they may lose enhanced redundancy terms the company applied in the earlier rounds.
LifeScan Cut 144 Jobs at Its Inverness Factory by June. The Company Never Announced It.
LifeScan Scotland eliminated 144 posts in Inverness through a voluntary severance scheme, with staff gone by the end of June. There was no press release. The figure surfaced this week, in the small print of the company's own annual accounts.
Barclays Is Cutting 5,000 Jobs and Naming AI as a Reason. It Will Not Say How Many Are in Britain.
Barclays told shareholders on 22 October that AI is making its staff more productive and it needs about 5,000 fewer of them. Its own chief executive then told reporters AI is "the icing on the cake, not the cake." A union calls it an excuse. Nobody has said how many of the 5,000 work in Britain.
The BBC Has Disclosed Six Rounds of Job Cuts So Far. They Add Up to Less Than a Quarter of Its Own 2,000 Target.
BBC News is cutting a net "just over 100" roles, and BBC Three and BBC Scotland are losing their television channels. Add up every departmental cut the corporation has confirmed this year and the total is 441, barely a fifth of the 2,000 jobs it said in April it would cut.
Ulster University Asked for 450 Redundancies. 735 Staff Applied to Leave.
Ulster University set a target of around 450 job losses in April. Seven months later, 735 staff, nearly a quarter of the workforce, have applied for voluntary redundancy. The university says the number is not final. Whichever way it moves, this is exactly the gap this ledger exists to track.
Amazon's Newest UK Warehouse Opens in Peterborough. It Promises 1,400 Jobs, Not Yet Delivered.
Amazon has turned a seasonal Peterborough site into a permanent GBP107 million distribution centre, calling it a historic moment for the company and promising 1,400 jobs. The building is open. Whether 1,400 people actually work there is a different question, and this ledger has set a date to check it.
Flutter Entertainment Is Cutting Up to 1,400 Jobs. Nobody Will Say How Many Are in the UK.
The owner of Paddy Power, Betfair and Sky Bet says up to 1,400 jobs will go across its combined UK and Ireland division, blaming this year's Budget tax rises. Leeds and Dublin are both named. How many of the 1,400 are British is not in any source checked.
Westminster City Council Is Cutting 520 Jobs. It Says AI Will Help It Cope Without Them.
Westminster City Council will cut 520 posts, about 14 percent of its workforce, blaming a government funding gap it says could reach GBP160 million by 2029. A cabinet member says AI and commercial activity will help the council run leaner afterwards. The cuts are confirmed; the coping plan is a forecast.
Britain's First Subsea Cable Factory Just Opened in the Highlands. Its 250 Jobs Are Still a Promise.
Sumitomo Electric opened a GBP350 million factory at Port of Nigg this week, the UK's first plant built to make the high-voltage subsea cables offshore wind farms need. The company says the site will create 250 jobs. Nobody has counted them yet.
Hexaware Promised 1,200 UK Jobs in June. This Week It Gave 420 of Them a Manchester Address.
A Greater Manchester trade mission to India this week announced 420 new jobs at a Hexaware technology centre, and it read like fresh news. It is not. Hexaware committed to 1,200 UK jobs across Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham back in June, as part of a UK-India package announced at the G7 Summit. This week is the first time any of those jobs got a city attached to them.
Marston's Brewery Has Run in Burton Since 1834. Carlsberg Britvic Wants to Close It by Summer 2027.
Carlsberg Britvic told staff and the Unite and GMB unions on 8 October that it wants to close Marston's Brewery in Burton upon Trent, ending almost two centuries of brewing on the site and putting around 310 jobs at risk. The company blames a UK cask ale market that has halved in a decade, not the plant or the people in it.
The Guardian Is Ending Casual Shifts. Up to 315 People Are Losing the Work For Good.
The Guardian is scrapping the casual-shift system that 370 journalists worked under in the last 14 months. It is creating up to 55 new part-time posts to replace them, plus 40 apprenticeships. The union says that still leaves up to 315 people with nowhere to go.
A Newcastle Tech Firm Promises 120 Jobs by 2029. Twenty of Them Are Already Open.
Everything Managed Group wants to grow from 180 staff to 300 at its Grey Street office after a half-million-pound refurbishment. Twenty of the new roles are hiring now. The rest depend on four more years going the way the company plans.
Bank of America Has Hired 300 People in Belfast. It Promised Up to 1,000.
Bank of America is marking a milestone at its new Belfast office: more than 300 hires completed. The company itself set the bar at up to 1,000 roles, back in September 2025. This ledger never logged that promise until the 300 became real.
450 Jobs Are Coming to Derby's New Railway Headquarters. None of Them Exist Yet.
Great British Railways confirmed on 15 October 2026 that its permanent headquarters will sit on a brownfield site in Derby city centre, with up to 450 staff eventually working there. Construction has not started, the building will not be finished until spring 2029, and the 450 is a ceiling, not a headcount.
A Hospital Trust Says AI Let It Shrink Its Workforce 'Compassionately'. The Union Calls That Backwards.
University Hospitals of Northamptonshire opened a voluntary exit scheme in September, saying new AI note-taking technology lets it reduce staff "in a controlled and compassionate way." The trust itself says the real redundancy number is well under the 100 posts identified, and a union organiser says AI should support staff, not replace them.
330 NHS Jobs Are at Risk in East London. The Trust Says a New Rule Left It No Choice.
East London NHS Foundation Trust is consulting on cutting 330 posts and redesigning at least ten mental health and community services to close a GBP25 million funding gap. Unite is balloting more than 500 staff for strike action; the trust itself says most people at risk will be redeployed, not made redundant.
Poundland Says Its Turnaround Is Working. Its Owner Still Wants GBP30 Million Back First, With 12,000 Jobs on the Line.
Usdaw warned this week that Poundland could be pushed into administration, putting up to 12,000 jobs across its UK stores at risk. The dispute holding up a rescue is not about whether the business can be saved. It is about whether owner Gordon Brothers gets its GBP30 million shareholder loan back before anyone finds out.
Newcastle City Council Raised Its Civic Centre Job-Cut Target From 75 to 121. It Names AI as Part of the Reason.
Newcastle City Council told councillors this month that up to 121 posts are now expected to go at its Civic Centre, up from an original target of 75. Unlike most employers on this ledger, the council did not wait to be asked about AI. It named "artificial intelligence and digital self-service tools" itself, as part of why it can run with fewer staff.
GE Aerospace Promises 150 Jobs at Prestwick. The Public Purse Is Paying More of the Bill Than the Company Is.
GE Aerospace is spending GBP63 million expanding its Prestwick engine repair site, creating around 150 jobs. Taxpayers and two public bodies are putting in GBP33 million of that, more than the aerospace giant itself.
A New Electric Sports Car Brand Just Promised Nuneaton 200 Jobs. It Will Not Say How Many People It Employs Today.
Longbow, a three-year-old electric sports car startup founded by former Tesla engineers, says it will create more than 200 skilled jobs building cars at MIRA Technology Park near Nuneaton. The West Midlands Combined Authority is backing it with GBP 3 million. Longbow has not said how many people it currently employs, so there is no way to check what scale of promise 200 jobs actually is.
A Bristol Defence Firm Just Promised 100 New Jobs. It Currently Employs About 120 People, Total.
MARSS Systems, a Bristol defence-technology firm with around 120 staff, says it will create 100 new jobs after Kuwait signed a GBP 370 million deal for its NiDAR air-defence system. The company would very nearly double in size on this one contract, and no date is attached to when the jobs arrive.
A Robotics Startup Just Promised London 180 New Jobs. It Currently Employs 88 People, Anywhere.
MicroAGI, a Munich robotics firm with about 88 staff worldwide, says it will create 180 new high-paid jobs expanding its London office, as part of a new UK-Germany tech corridor. The company would more than double in size on this promise alone, and no date is attached to it.
HSBC Is Cutting Up to 70 Percent of Its UK Financial Advisers. It Will Not Say How Many People That Is.
HSBC told the Financial Times this week that around half of its UK wealth management and specialist roles, and up to 70 percent of its financial adviser roles, are going as the bank leans harder on AI tools. HSBC will not say how many people that is: it does not publish a headcount for the division, and its own public statements never once mention AI as the reason. The ledger logs the pattern, not a number that nobody has given.
Royal Mail Says Up to 2,500 Office Jobs Can Go Without a Single Compulsory Redundancy. This Ledger Will Hold It to That.
Royal Mail announced this morning that an organisational review will cut up to 2,500 head office and support roles by the end of 2027, through natural attrition and voluntary redundancy only, with no frontline posts touched. The CWU says about 200 of its members are in the firing line and wants the government to step in. The ledger logs 2,500 at ANNOUNCED grade, status proposed, and names what has to be true for the no-compulsory promise to hold.
Ineos Mothballed Three Hull Chemical Plants Over Gas Prices. 245 Jobs Are Being Kept On, for Now.
UK gas costs twelve times the US price and eight times China's, says Ineos, so it has mothballed all three acetyls units at Saltend Chemicals Park, Hull, calling them among the most efficient of their kind in the world. The 245 staff directly employed there are being kept on while the company tries to find cheaper gas. Nothing has been lost yet, but a permanent closure would put close to 4,000 jobs at risk across the Humber.
The BBC Confirmed 110 Compulsory Redundancies in Its iPlayer and Sounds Division. The Only Quote on Record Never Mentions AI.
BBC Media Tech, the division that builds iPlayer and BBC Sounds, is cutting 110 posts through compulsory redundancy, with 180 more departures sought through buyouts. Several outlets reported the BBC would replace the jobs with AI. The only quote from the corporation on record does not say that, or anything close to it.
Shropshire's NHS Group Has Put Up to 400 Jobs on the Table. None of Them Are Compulsory Yet.
The Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Community and Hospitals NHS Group needs to cut 20 million pounds from staff spending this year. Its chief executive says compulsory redundancies will be a last resort, and the plan leans on natural turnover and a voluntary scheme first. No one has been told to leave yet.
Brookfield Bought Just Group in April. It Has Cut Jobs Twice Since, and the Second Round Is Not Finished.
Brookfield's 2.4 billion pound take-private deal for the pensions and retirement income specialist closed on 1 April. A May round cut 150 roles; a consultation opened in September is expected to cut more than 300 more, which would take the two rounds together to roughly 30 per cent of the workforce, if the current figure holds.
SSE Promises 100 Jobs at Montrose Port. The Wind Farm Paying for Them Is Not Approved Yet.
SSE Renewables has picked Montrose Port as its preferred operations base for a new offshore wind farm phase, saying the site would support 100 new full-time jobs. The investment decision that would actually build the thing is not due until next year.
Center Parcs Promised Scotland 1,200 Jobs in March. The Resort Will Not Open Until 2029.
The company's first Scottish site, a 450 million pound holiday village near Hawick, was announced by the First Minister in March. Recruitment has not started and will not for some time: the resort is not due to open until summer 2029.
Tesco Cut 380 Jobs Closing Its Central Bakery in January. This Ledger Took Nine Months to Catch It.
The supermarket confirmed the cuts on 28 January as it shut a centralised bakery operation and moved baking back into around 100 Express stores. Around 150 of the roles were night-shift staff at its Teesport warehouse on Teesside. No daily search caught it until now.
Syngenta Wants to Shut Its Grangemouth Plant. Scotland Has Already Lost the Refinery Next Door.
The chemicals maker opened a consultation on 1 October proposing to close its last Scottish production site, putting 377 jobs at risk. It follows the Grangemouth oil refinery into closure, and none of a promised 200 million pounds has reached the town yet.
Russell & Bromley Fell in a Single Day in January. The Final Count Took Until May: 332 Jobs.
A pre-pack deal saved the brand and three stores. The other 33 shops and nine concessions traded on under administrators until April, then closed for good. No daily pass on this ledger ever caught it.
ABP Told 338 Dungannon Workers Their Jobs Were at Risk in January. Nobody Has Heard a Final Number Since.
The meat processor opened consultation on closing retail packing at its Co Tyrone site in January. Eight months on, no concluded figure has surfaced anywhere, and no daily pass on this ledger ever logged it.
Ardmore Construction Group Traded for 52 Years. A Court Judgment Over a 2009 Building Ended It in a Week.
Administrators were appointed to the London fit-out and construction group on 11 and 12 June, after a Building Liability Order over a development completed in 2009 wiped out client confidence on live contracts. Around 275 staff went immediately; nine London projects, including the 500 million pound Tribeca scheme at Kings Cross, were left in limbo.
Torsion Construction Delivered 287 Million Pounds of Housing. It Collapsed in a Single Afternoon, Taking 115 Jobs.
Administrators were appointed to the Leeds contractor on 29 July, nine days after it filed notice of intent. Trading stopped the same day the administrators arrived, and most of its 115 staff were made redundant on the spot.
GB News Says Its Own Automation Makes 90 Job Cuts Possible. An Insider Says Output Will Suffer.
GB News opened a 45-day consultation in July on cutting up to 90 roles, more than a third of its staff, and said directly that automated newsroom workflows are part of why it can run on fewer people. That is the ledgers first employer-cited AI attribution, not a denial and not a third-party claim. An internal source says the quality cost is being absorbed, not avoided.
Nestle Is Cutting 450 UK Jobs From York to Gatwick. Five Months Later, There Is Still No Final Number.
Nestle told staff and unions in April that more than 450 UK roles are at risk, mostly at its York and Gatwick sites, as the UK slice of a global plan to cut 16,000 jobs. No briefing ever flagged it. Five months on, the consultation has produced no concluded figure anywhere checked.
University of Exeter Says 150 Jobs Are Going. Its Union Says the Real Number Is More Than 500.
University of Exeter told academic staff in late June that it proposes 150 redundancies to address rising costs and falling international recruitment. The University and College Union says the real number at risk, once related roles are counted, is more than 500. The ledger logs the university's own figure and records the dispute over the rest.
Hertfordshire Closed Its Humanities Degrees in May. In June It Said 200 Jobs Would Go Too.
The University of Hertfordshire told staff on 23 June that it needs to cut 200 jobs across teaching, technical and professional services roles to save 20 million pounds a year. It follows a May decision to close humanities undergraduate degrees for low recruitment. Neither move has been logged on this ledger until now.
Airbus Is Reviving Its Old A380 Wing Factory in Wales. 250 Jobs Are Supposed to Follow by the End of the Year.
Airbus is spending 150 million pounds converting the Broughton factory that once built A380 wings into a new line for the smaller, far more popular A321. The company says the refurbished facility alone will bring 250 new jobs by the end of the year. The ledger logs that figure and leaves a separate, fuzzier claim about the wider site out of it.
Every Beefeater and Brewers Fayre in Britain Just Closed. Up to 3,800 Jobs Went With Them.
Whitbread announced on 30 April that it would exit all 197 of its branded restaurants and cut up to 3,800 jobs, completing its shift to a pure-play hotel business. The last Beefeater shut on 10 September. This ledger is only logging it now, five months after the announcement and three weeks after the closures finished.
Admiral Is Cutting 500 UK Jobs and Using AI. It Says the Two Are Not Connected.
Admiral told staff on 23 September it is cutting 500 roles from its UK insurance business, about 5 per cent of that workforce, and opened a 45-day consultation. Asked about AI, the company said its technology programme is not the reason. That denial is the first of its kind on this ledger, and it is logged as carefully as a claim would be.
Greggs Opened 95 Shops This Year. On the Same Morning, It Proposed Closing Four Factories.
Greggs told the market on 30 September that sales are up 7.7 per cent, that it has opened 95 shops this year, and that building capacity for 3,500 shops will create many more jobs. The same announcement proposes closing four manufacturing sites with around 740 roles going over two and a half years. Both halves are promises, and the ledger counts neither as a job yet.
A Defence Startup Just Opened London's Biggest Factory Since the War. It Employs 35 People, For Now.
Isembard has opened a 160,000 square foot precision-manufacturing factory and global headquarters in Southwark, the largest new factory in central London since the Second World War. It currently employs 35 people there. The company says that will reach 200 by the end of 2027, and the ledger logs the gap between those two numbers.
A Government Fund Just Promised 130,000 Jobs by 2030. This Ledger Is Counting None of Them Yet.
Chancellor John Healey says the National Wealth Fund will create and support 130,000 UK jobs by 2030, spanning AI, defence and clean energy, with Rolls-Royce naming 300 million pounds of investment on the same day. The figure is real and precisely sourced. It is also too diffuse for this ledger to count as a gain, so it goes into the promise register instead.
Sizewell C Just Got Planning Permission for a Factory in Bristol. It Says the Site Will Employ 400 People By 2028.
A tunnel segment factory at Avonmouth Docks has just cleared planning. Sizewell C says it will employ up to 400 people once it reaches full production in 2028. This ledger logs the promise and sets the dates it will check.
AGC Chemicals Proposed Closing Its Lancashire Plant in July. By September, 208 Jobs Were Confirmed Gone.
A consultation opened in July ended in September: AGC Chemicals Europe has confirmed its Hillhouse site in Lancashire will stop making anything by the end of the year, after four straight years of losses. Two hundred and eight jobs go with it.
Sunseeker Holiday Homes Said It Had a Year of Cash Left in May. By September, 76 Jobs Were Gone.
Directors told their own accounts in May that Sunseeker Holiday Homes had adequate resources for at least 12 months. Four months later the Hull lodge maker stopped trading, taking 76 jobs with it.
Designers Guild Sold Its Own Archive to Dunelm Last Year. This Week the Company Behind It Collapsed, Taking 93 Jobs.
Designers Guild sold its brand and archive to Dunelm in April 2025. Eighteen months later the company that made it famous has stopped trading, and 93 staff have lost their jobs.
Glens of Antrim Potatoes Collapsed After 54 Years. Ninety-Five Jobs Went, and Its Growers Have Nowhere to Sell.
Glens of Antrim Potatoes stopped trading on 21 September, taking 95 jobs in Cushendall and Ballymena with it. The Companies House filing confirms the collapse; the network of growers left holding an unsold crop is the part still unresolved.
Vistry Cut 350 Jobs Since Summer. Now It Is Halving Its Regions and Will Not Say How Many More Will Go.
A voluntary exit scheme has already taken 350 jobs out of the housebuilder since the summer. Its half-year results on 24 September cut its regions from 25 to 12 and promised more savings, without saying how many more jobs that means.
Clayton Glass Collapsed Into Administration Last Week. Three of Its Seven Factories Are Not Reopening.
Administrators were appointed on 18 September and a pre-pack sale followed within days. Four of the glass makers seven sites kept trading; the other three, in County Durham, North Lanarkshire and Blackburn, did not.
Legal & General Is Cutting 1,000 Jobs to Get Leaner. It Is Also Handing Shareholders More Than 5 Billion Pounds by 2027.
Chief executive Antonio Simoes told staff on 23 September that a tenth of the insurer's workforce will go by mid-2027 to cut complexity. The same three years carry a separate promise, made in March, to hand shareholders more than 5 billion pounds.
The University of Essex Closed a Campus This Summer. Its Own Staff Just Went on Strike for the First Time.
The University of Essex announced 400 job cuts and a campus closure in December 2025. The Southend campus shut at the end of August as scheduled; 97 percent of union members who voted said they had no confidence in the vice-chancellor; and this week admissions, IT and administrative staff struck for the first time ever.
Oracle Is Cutting Jobs Again. It Will Not Say How Many Are in Britain.
Oracle has told its own shareholders the restructuring will cost up to $2.8bn, its workforce fell by around 21,000 in a year, and a new round of job-loss notices went out in September. It has a British operating company registered in Reading since 1984, and has published no British number, location or timetable at all.
Ulster University Wants to Cut 450 Jobs. It Will Not Say What Happens If Not Enough People Volunteer.
Ulster University told staff in April that 450 jobs, 15 percent of its workforce, would have to go. Five months later a voluntary scheme has opened, and the university still will not say whether it rules out compulsory redundancies, or a bigger number, if not enough people take the offer.
British Gas Is Cutting 1,300 Call Centre Jobs. It Says the Chatbots Have Nothing to Do With It.
Centrica told staff in June that AI was not behind 500 threatened customer service roles. In July it confirmed 800 more, for 1,300 in total, in the same breath as announcing a transformation programme built on AI tools. The union is not buying the distinction, and neither claim gets to be this ledger's finding.
A Rescue Deal Bought Nottingham's Transport Charity Ten Months. Then 76 Jobs Went Anyway.
CT4N, the Nottingham charity that has run community transport for the city's most vulnerable residents since 1979, stopped trading overnight in August, with 76 staff affected. A creditor rescue deal agreed ten months earlier did not hold. Administrators and a Gazette notice make this the ledger's second REPORTED-grade loss.
The UK Agri-Tech Centre Was Built to Grow British Farming Innovation. Now It Wants to Cut 80 of Its Own Jobs.
Formed two years ago by merging three government-backed agri-tech organisations into one national centre, the UK Agri-Tech Centre is now consulting on cutting its own workforce from 130 to 50. The ledger logs the proposal, ANNOUNCED, while farmers who rely on the centre call the scale of it a tragedy.
Reach Is Cutting 225 UK Journalism Jobs. For Once, a Company Names AI as Part of Why.
Reach plc is cutting 220 editorial roles while creating 60, plus about 65 commercial roles: a net reduction of about 225. It is closing three regional titles. Its own staff memo names Google's AI Overviews as part of the reason, the first time an employer on this ledger has made that claim about itself rather than had it made for them.
B&Q Dropped Metsä Wood in February. This Ledger Is Only Logging the 120 Jobs Now.
Metsa Wood UK lost its biggest customer to a tender review in February and opened consultation on around 120 jobs at its Boston site. It never made this ledger at the time. Here is the row, seven months late, with the sourcing that should have caught it.
McLaren Would Not Confirm Its 1,000 Jobs. A Week Later, the Prime Minister Did It For Them.
McLaren and the Department for Business and Trade both declined to confirm a Financial Times report of 1,000 new UK jobs. A week later, the government announced the same jobs itself, with McLaren's own chief executive on the record, a bigger investment figure and three new sites. What changed, and what still has not.
RLB Cut 40 Jobs With No Warning, Partners Included. It Says It Is Still Hiring.
Construction cost consultancy RLB made at least 40 people redundant across London, Birmingham and Manchester, from partner level down, after what it calls a review of the business. One affected employee says the selection felt random. The company says it is still recruiting in other parts of the business.
A Huddersfield Plastics Plant Is Closing in November. The Decision Was Made in Switzerland.
Forteq UK makes plastic components for carmakers at a site in Waterloo, Huddersfield. Its Swiss parent has decided to move that production to the Czech Republic, and the Huddersfield plant closes at the end of November, taking more than 50 jobs with it.
KPMG Is Cutting 200 UK Advisory Jobs, Some of Them Working on AI. The Company Says That Is Not Why.
Coverage of KPMG's third UK redundancy round this year led with the AI and cyber specialists among the 200 roles cut. The company's own explanation is a market slowdown and low staff turnover, not artificial intelligence. Both are on the record; only one is the firm's claim.
260 NHS Jobs Are Going in West Yorkshire This Year. The Trust Already Knows Roughly How Many Next Year Will Cost.
Pinderfields, Pontefract and Dewsbury hospitals are losing 260 posts this year as their trust chases a GBP 57m savings target. The trust's own chief executive told its AGM a similar number will be needed next year too, before this year's round is even finished.
Dundee Round Three Ends at 154 Jobs, Not the 190 First Announced. The Principal Now Says No More.
The University of Dundee opened its third round of job cuts in June proposing around 190 posts. The consultation has now closed: 154 FTE roles go to redundancy, 38 new roles were created for redeployment, and the ledger row is corrected down. Principal Nigel Seaton says there will be no further redundancy rounds, but staff strike for five weeks from 21 September regardless.
Bet365 Is Cutting 300 Stoke-on-Trent Jobs. Its Founder Was Paid 104 Million Pounds the Year Before.
Bet365 is cutting 340 jobs across Stoke-on-Trent, Gibraltar and Malta, blaming higher gambling taxes and a tougher trading environment. The ledger counts the 300 UK roles, at the Stoke-on-Trent head office where the company is the biggest private employer. Founder Denise Coates was paid 104 million pounds in salary for the year to March 2025, before dividends.
McLaren Is Reported to Be Planning 1,000 Jobs at Woking. McLaren Will Not Say So Itself.
The Financial Times says McLaren is planning 1,000 new UK jobs and a 450 million pound investment at its Woking technology centre. McLaren will not confirm it. The ledger logs the promise anyway, exactly as reported, with a review date for whenever the company decides to talk.
Kellogg's Has Stopped Making Cereal in Trafford Park After 88 Years. 360 Jobs Go With It.
The factory that first put Corn Flakes and Rice Krispies on British shelves has stopped production after 88 years, taking 360 jobs with it. The ledger logs the loss ANNOUNCED and records why the company says the building itself, not the demand for its cereal, is what closed it down.
Channel 4 Says 340 Jobs Will Go, a Quarter of Its Staff. Here Is What It Blames, and What It Does Not.
Channel 4 has confirmed the deepest job cuts in its 43 year history: 340 roles, more than a quarter of its 1,276 strong workforce, gone by the end of the year. The ledger logs it ANNOUNCED, records the reasons the broadcaster gives, and notes the one reason it does not give: artificial intelligence gets no mention at all.
Two Rounds of Cuts Did Not Stop the Losses at Dundee. Round Three Puts 190 More Jobs on the Table.
The University of Dundee has shed 675 staff in under two years and says it is still losing around 2 million pounds a month. In June it opened collective consultation on roughly 190 further posts. The ledger logs round three at ANNOUNCED, and the first two rounds show why the grade matters: voluntary schemes have a habit of approving fewer departures than they target.
170 Jobs Ended With a Court Filing, Not a Press Release. That Is What REPORTED Means.
When Zentia's two Gateshead factories stopped in June, there was no announcement to grade and no window to watch. Administrators were appointed, the Gazette notices followed, and around 170 people were already redundant. It is the first entry in this ledger graded REPORTED, and the difference matters.
Jaguar Land Rover Says Up to 4,000 Jobs Will Go. Here Is What the Ledger Logs, and What the Company Blames.
Britain's largest carmaker has opened a voluntary redundancy programme aimed at cutting up to 4,000 jobs over two years. The ledger logs 4,000 ANNOUNCED, records the three causes the company cites, and notes the one it does not: nobody at Jaguar Land Rover is blaming AI.
The Corrections Log. Every Error This Site Has Published, and What Was Done About It.
Every substantive error published on this site is recorded here permanently: what was wrong, when it was fixed, and how it got through. A site that counts other people's numbers publicly has to keep its own errors in public view too.
When a Company Cuts Jobs, Blaming AI Is Free. This Strand Checks the Invoice.
Telling investors that job cuts are an AI transformation sounds strategic; telling them the company misjudged demand does not. That asymmetry means AI gets blamed for cuts it did and did not cause. This strand logs every AI-attributed redundancy and holds the claim to the available evidence.
The Scoreboard. Every Logged Loss and Gain, Reconciled, With Nothing Counted That Cannot Be Cited.
The running account: announced and reported job losses against job gains, month by month, with AI-attributed cuts tracked separately. Generated from the dataset on every build, so the totals always reconcile with the logged events.
A Company Announcing 500 New Jobs Has Not Created One Yet. This Site Counts the Difference.
Job cuts get announced with precision and job promises get announced with fanfare, and almost nobody checks either against what happens. This site logs both columns, labels every figure REPORTED or ANNOUNCED, and returns to every promise at twelve and twenty-four months.