HC Deb 08 February 1974 vol 868 cc429-30W
Mr. Alan Williams

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make it his policy to initiate as soon as possible an inquiry under the relativities report of the Pay Board into the pay of nurses.

Mr. Whitelaw

The immediate task of the new relativities machinery will be to examine the miners' case, taking due account of the relative claims of other groups. Further consideration will need to be given to its programme of work thereafter.

STOPPAGES OF WORK DUE TO INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES: UNITED KINGDOM WORKING DAYS LOST THROUGH STOPPAGES IN PROGRESS
(a) Year (b) All industries and services (c) Coalmining (d) (c) as a percentage of (b)
1963 … … … 1,755,000 326,000 18.6
1964 … … … 2,277,000 302,000 13.3
1965 … … … 2,925,000 412,000 14.1
1966 … … … 2,398,000 118,000 4.9
1967 … … … 2,787,000 105,000 3.8
1968 … … … 4,690,000 54,000 1.2
1969 … … … 6,846,000 1,039,000 15.2
1970 … … … 10,980,000 1,090,000 9.9
1971 … … … 13,551,000 63,000 0.5
1972 … … … 23,909,000 10,798,000 45.2
1973 (provisional)* … … … 7,173,000 90,000 1.3
* Does not include figures for coalmining stoppages in December 1973 which are not yet available.

Mr. Sillars

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing the number of days lost in total through industrial disputes in each of the last 13 years to the nearest available date;