§ Mr. Moonmanasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity if she will state the number of millions of days lost for 1966, 1967, 1968 and to the latest date in 1969, for sickness, industrial injuries, unemployment and strikes, respectively.
§ Mr. HattersleyFollowing is the information available:
GREAT BRITAIN Millions Days lost in year ended 4th June, 1966 3rd June, 1967 Sickness* 311 301 Industrial injuries and prescribed diseases* 24 23 30W
Days lost in calendar year 1966 1967 1968 1969(Jan.-March) Stoppages of work due to industrial disputes† 2¼ 2¾ 4½ 1½ * Absence as notified for the purposes of National Insurance. Figures for 1967–68 are not yet available. Days of incapacity following termination of injury benefit are included under sickness.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerThe following information is derived from the Department's half-yearly inquiries into the earnings and hours of manual workers. The latest convenient date is October, 1968. Comparable figures are given for the month of October in each of the years 1963–67.
† Working days lost at the establishments the disputes occurred. I regret that similar information is not available for unemployment, but the average of the twelve monthly counts of registered unemployed persons was 360,000 in 1966, 560,000 in 1967 and 564,000 in 1968; and the average of the first three months of 1969 was 592,000.