§ Mr. Wallasked the Secretary of State for Employment on how many days in each of the past 10 years Hull docks have been affected by official and unofficial strikes, respectively.
§ Mr. Golding :Information about stoppages of work in Hull docks is not available in the precise form requested. The following information, which does not separately distinguish official and unofficial stoppages, has been prepared by the Department of Employment and is published in the Annual Digests of Port Statistics.
HULL AND GOOLE DOCKS Stoppages beginning in year Number of workers stoppages in progress in year Number of working involved in days lost in stoppages in progress in year 1967 11 11,700 13,000 1968 16 13,100 23,000 1969 32 36,900 33,000 1970 28 35,600 75,000 1971 9 14,700 52,000 1972 11 20,500 54,000 1973 8 8,900 17,000 1974 9 5,900 6,000 1975 7 8,200 11,000 1976 7 4,500 3,000