§ Mr. Heseltineasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will set out the numbers of days lost per thousand employees for each year since nationalisation in each of the following nationalised industries: (1) the National Coal Board, (2) the Central Electricity Generating Board, (3) the electricity boards, (4) the National Bus Company, (5) the Railways Board, (6) the British Steel Corporation, and (7) the gas boards.
§ Mr. BoothExcept for coal mining, separate information about working days lost through industrial stoppages in the nationalised industries is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. Information for the coal mining industry, which consists very largely of the National Coal Board, is as follows:
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STOPPAGE OF WORK DUE TO INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES UNITED KINGDOM Working days lost per 1,000 employees in the coal mining industry 1948 … … … 600 1949 … … … 950 1950 … … … 550 1951 … … … 450 1952 … … … 850 1953 … … … 500 1954 … … … 600 1955 … … … 1,400 1956 … … … 650 1957 … … … 650 1958 … … … 600 1959 … … … 475 1960 … … … 700 1961 … … … 1,100 1962 … … … 500 1963 … … … 550 1964 … … … 500 1965 … … … 750 1966 … … … 225 1967 … … … 225 1968 … … … 125 1969 … … … 2,700 1970 … … … 3,050 1971 … … … 175 1972 … … … 32,700 1973 (provisional) … … … 275
§ Mr. Heseltineasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will set out the average numbers of days lost per thousand employees in manufacturing industry in each year since 1948.
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§ Mr. BoothFollowing is the information:
STOPPAGE OF WORK DUE TO INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES: UNITED KINGDOM Working days lost per 1,000 employees in all manufacturing industries* 1948 … … … 125 1949 … … … 50 1950 … … … 70 1951 … … … 70 1952 … … … 100 1953 … … … 175 1954 … … … 90 1955 … … … 90 1956 … … … 150 1957 … … … 700 1958 … … … 90 1959 … … … 550 1960 … … … 200 1961 … … … 175 1962 … … … 550 1963 … … … 100 1964 … … … 175 1965 … … … 225 1966 … … … 100 1967 … … … 175 1968 … … … 425 1969 … … … 475 1970 … … … 750 1971 … … … 800 1972 … … … 1,000 1973 (provisional) … … … 750 * These rates are calculated on estimates of employees in employment which prior to 1971 were based on counts of national insurance cards and from 1971 were based on the annual censuses of employment. The census-based employment figures are somewhat lower and this gives rather higher incidence rates. The rate for all manufacturing industries in 1971, if based on card count figures, would have been 750.