§ 41. Sir Anthony Meyerasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will publish statistics on a regional and sub-regional basis of the number of days lost through industrial disputes.
Mr. May hewThe regional figures as published annually in theEmployment Gazette, are as follows for 1979:
Region Working days lost in stoppages in progress (Thousand) South East 4,487 East Anglia 548 South West 2,423 West Midlands 4,199 East Midlands 2,351 Yorkshire and Humberside 3,115 North West 4,516 North 2,164 Wales 1,642 Scotland 3,298 Northern Ireland 730 United Kingdom 29,474 Sub-regional figures are not readily available for recent years and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.