§ 28. Mr. Danceasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity if she will list the number of stoppages and days lost due to industrial disputes, including and excluding mining, for the nine months up to and including June, 1969 and for the nine months since June, 1969, respectively; and if she will state the percentage increases of the latter period over the earlier period.
§ Mr. Harold Walker:Following is the information:
varied between 2.2 per cent, in 1961 and 5.1 per cent, in 1967, and averaged 3.2 per cent. The great majority of the remaining stoppages would have been unofficial; and most of these would also have been in breach of agreement, though the Department is not able to estimate the precise proportion.
§ 42. Mr. Tom Kingasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity if she will state the number of stoppages 367W due to industrial disputes, including and excluding mining, in the first three months of 1970, and for the comparable period of 1969 and 1968.
§ Mr. Harold Walker:Including and excluding mining and quarrying, respectively, the provisional figures of the numbers of stoppages of work due to industrial disputes in the United Kingdom which began during the first 3 months of 1970 are 1.134 and 1,100. The corresponding figures for the same period in 1969 are 718 and 653, and in 1968, 518 and 464.
§ 43. and 44. Mr. David Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity (1) whether she will publish the latest statistics or her estimate of those laid off work in the motor industry as a result of official and unofficial strikes although not themselves on strike;
(2) whether she will publish the latest statistics or estimates of those laid off work as a result of official and unofficial strikes although not themselves on strike.
§ Mr. Harold Walker:There are formidable practical difficulties in getting accurate statistics of the numbers laid off in other establishments as a result of the stoppages covered by my Department's monthly statistics. However, an estimate of working days lost in known instances of such lay-offs in the motor industry, which is particularly affected, is published annually in the Employment and Productivity Gazette and the figure for 1969 is due to appear in the May issue.