§ 50. Sir C. Osborneasked the Minister of Labour how many working days have been lost through strikes, official and unofficial, respectively, in 1966 to the latest convenient date; and what were the numbers in each of the past five years for the same period.
§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsCertain stoppages are known to have been official, but it is not known whether the remainder were official.
The number of days lost in all stoppages in progress and the number of days lost in stoppages known to be official in the first five months of each of the years 1961 to 1966 were:
All stoppages in progress (thousands) Stoppages known to be official 1961 … … 1,679 425 1962 … … 4,526 3,653 1963 … … 490 62 1964 … … 1,211 457 1965 … … 1,681 426 1966 … … 945 326 The figures for 1966 are provisional.