HC Deb 22 March 1971 vol 814 c49W
Mr. Sillars

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing the number of working days lost per 1,000 employees in the motor-car industries of Great Britain, France, West Germany, Japan and the United States of America, from information available to him from international sources, in the years 1960 to 1970, inclusive.

Mr. Bryan

The figures for the last four years for motor vehicle manufacturing (MLH 381) in the United Kingdom are given below.

Days lost per 1,000 employees
1970 * (provisional) 2,199
1969 3,232
1968 1,825
1967 1,034
* Figures for 1970 are not precisely comparable with those for earlier years due to changes in the Standard Industrial Classification.

I regret that figures for the United Kingdom for the years 1960 and 1966 are not available in a comparable form, and that the other information requested is not available from international sources.