HC Deb 03 November 1975 vol 899 cc27-8W
Mrs. Knight

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will take steps to bring the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service to bear in an inter-union dispute affecting the National Association of Licensed House Managers which is causing unemployment in the Birmingham area.

Mr. Booth

I understand that the independent Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service has been in touch with offices who last worked in construction and of notified unfilled vacancies for males in the industry. The vacancy statistics relate only to vacancies notified to employment offices and are not a measure of total vacancies. At June 1974, the most recent date for which the information is available, there were about 11,800 males employed in construction in the Tayside Region, of whom about 6,400 worked in Dundee. Up-to-date estimates of the number of skilled and the number of unskilled workers in these areas are not available.

the parties throughout the dispute affecting Ansell's brewery in Birmingham.