§ Mr. John Mooreasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the number of days lost through strikes for each of the nationalised industries for each year since 1964.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerExcept for coal mining, separate information about working days lost through industrial stoppages in individual nationalised industries is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. For 1973 and later years, separate analyses have been made of stoppages in the public sector, which includes Public Corporations, consisting mainly of the nationalised industries. The numbers of working days lost in public corporations as a whole in the years 1973, 1974 and 1975 were 852,000; 6,399,000 and 253,000, respectively.
The numbers of working days lost in the coal mining industry—Minimum List Heading 101 of the 1968 Standard Industrial Classification—were as follows:
000s 1964 … … … 302 1965 … … … 412 1966 … … … 118 1967 … … … 105 1968 … … … 54 1969 … … … 1,039 1970 … … … 1,090 1971 … … … 63 1972 … … … 10,798 1973 … … … 90 1974 … … … 5,625 1975 … … … 52