HC Deb 21 January 1969 vol 776 cc91-2W
Mr. Moyle

asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity (1) what was the number of man-hours lost as a result of official strikes during the year 1968, or for the last 12-month period for which figures are available;

(2) what was the number of man-hours lost as a result of unofficial strikes during the year 1968, or for the last 12-month period for which figures are available.

Mr. Hattersley

In official statistics loss of time due to stoppages of work is measured in terms of "days lost". Stoppages known to have been official accounted for a loss of 1,797,000 working days out of a total of 4,692,000 days lost during 1968 through stoppages of work due to industrial disputes in the United Kingdom. These figures are provisional. It is not known whether all the stoppages accounting for the balance of days lost were unofficial, though the great majority would have been.