Industrial Action (Hansard, 26 June 1990)

§ 21. Mr. Simon Coombs
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list those years since 1960 with a greater number of stoppages due to industrial action than 1989.

§ Mr Howard
The year 1989 had the lowest number of stoppages for over half a century.

§ 41. Mr. Sumberg
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he has any proposals to alter the legislation concerning secondary industrial action.

§ Mr. Nicholls
The March 1989 Green Paper "Removing Barriers to Employment" (Cm. 655) proposed changes to the present law to make it unlawful to induce industrial action by workers of an employer not party to a trade dispute except in the case of lawful picketing. The current Employment Bill, which had its Second Reading in another place on 15 June, contains provisions which will bring those changes into effect.

§ 1989. Mr. Evennett
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of stoppages due to industrial action in(a) 1977, (b) 1978, (c) 1979, (d) 1987, (e) 1988 and (f)

§ Mr. Nicholls
The recorded number of stoppages due to industrial action is given in the table:

Year Number of stoppages

1977 2,737

1978 2,498

1979 2,125

1987 1,016

1988 781

1989 701

Year	Number of stoppages
1977	2,737
1978	2,498
1979	2,125
1987	1,016
1988	781
1989	701