§ Mr. Cantasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will publish separate unemployment statistics for Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme.
September to December 1974 1975 1976 (a) Requests for conciliation 656 2,564 3,460 (b) Advisory work*— Short advisory visits 1,938 7,277 8,901 Advisory surveys and projects 65 208 208 (c) Inquiries*† — — — (d) References to arbitration, mediation and panels of investigation. 75 306 323 (e) Trade union recognitions‡ references under s. 11 of the Employment Protection Act. — — 461 * These were not all connected with trade disputes. † 19 longer-term investigations into industrial relations questions in individual companies or Industries were completed or underway during the period September 1974 to December 1976. ‡ These references involved conciliation and in some cases inquiries.