HC Deb 27 October 1955 vol 545 c368
34. Sir C. Taylor

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give an estimate of the loss to the export trade caused by strikes during the past three, six and twelve months, respectively.

Mr. P. Thorneycroft

No estimate can usefully be made. Some of the immediate decline in exports during a strike is made good in the following months, but the damage to our goodwill among our customers by repeated interruptions is of course not measured in the trade figures.