Difficult to say without more details but as a general rule it sounds ok to me.
Say, for the sake of argument there are a group of 5 secretaries in a department who are in a pool to reduce down to 3. If someone doing a different job who happened to have similar skills was put in the pool for the job the 5 secretaries are already doing and effectively could 'bump' one of them out of a job, they might feel hard done by, and justifiably really.
If you are doing a specific unique job and that specific unique job is no longer required, I think it's fine to say you are redundant. Obviously if there is any way of redeploying you or offering alternative employment your employer should do that, but the reduced number of roles in other people's groups aren't available.
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