§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity whether she will state, from information available to her from international sources, full details of the numbers of strikes, the number of days and/or hours lost through industrial disputes which have occurred in each of the six countries of the European Economic Community during the period January, 1965, to January, 1970; and if she will publish these details with comparative figures with those of Great Britain.
1965 1966 1967 1968 (latest year for which figures are available) France: Number of disputes … … 1,674 1,711 1,675 n.a. Number of days lost … … 979,861 2,523,488 4,203,509 n.a. Number of days lost per 1,000 workers (b) … … 100 240 430 n.a. Italy: Number of disputes … … 3,191 2,387 2,658 3,377 Number of days lost … … 6,992,856 14,473,551 8,568,433 9,239,793 Number of days lost per 1,000 workers (b) … … 540 1,710 580 930 Federal Republic of Germany Number of disputes … … n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. Number of days lost … … 48,520 27,086 398,581 25,249 Number of days lost per 1,000 workers (b) … … — — 30 — Belgium Number of disputes … … 43 74 58 71 Number of days lost … … 70,131 533,239 181,713 364,363 Number of days lost per 1,000 workers (b) … … 40 320 90 230 (a) Holland Number of disputes … … 60 20 8 11 Number of days lost … … 54,607 12,647 6,165 13,698 Number of days lost per 1.000 workers (b) … … 30 10 — 10 U.K.: Number of disputes … … 2,354 1,937 2,116 2,378 Number of days lost … … 2,935,000 2,398,000 2,787,000 4,690,000 Number of days lost per 1,000 workers (b) … … 220 180 220 370 Sources: Number of disputes and number of days lost from the ILO Year Book of Labour Statistics; Sources: Number of days lost per 1,000 workers from information provided by the ILO and published in DEP Gazette. Notes: (a) Preliminary figure. (b) Covers disputes in mining, manufacturing, construction and transport only. — Nil or negligible.