§ Mr. John Mooreasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for the EEC as a whole, for each present member State of the EEC, the USA and Japan for each year since 1970 the number of working days lost through strikes per 1,000 employed population.
§ Mr. Golding,pursuant to his reply [Official Report 13th July 1978], gave the following information:
The information requested is given in the table below. It is important to note that there are differences in definitions and methods of compilation used in the various countries, the most important of which are indicated in the footnotes. The figures provided are therefore not fully comparable.
Employment Service Division's head office dealt with 2,496 requests for assistance to find work outside the United Kingdom in the first six months of 1978. I understand his is the average number of requests expected during any six months period.