§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will state how often, due to an industrial dispute, there has been a declared state of emergency since the commencement of the Industrial Relations Act 1971; and on how many occasions he has used Section 141 of the Act to ballot the union membership involved in the dispute.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithThree times. Section 141 was not used on any of these occasions.