HC Deb 06 July 1992 vol 211 cc45-6W
Mr. Pope

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many days have been lost due to industrial disputes for the latest year available in local government and public services.

Mr. McLoughlin

A total of 323,000 working days were lost in local government and public services in 1991, the latest calendar year for which data are available.

Mr. Pope

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many days have been lost due to unauthorised industrial action in each year since 1989.

Mr. McLoughlin

Because of difficulties in categorising disputes, data distinguishing between authorised and unauthorised action are not routinely collected. No such information is available for the years requested.

Mr. Pope

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many days have been lost due to industrial disputes in each of the years since 1979, expressed both as an absolute figure and as a proportion of employees in employment.

Mr. McLoughlin

Data expressed as absolute figures of working days lost, and working days lost per thousand employees in employment are given in the following table and have been extracted from an article on industrial disputes published in the May 1992 edition of theEmployment Gazette.

Year Absolute figure in thousands Working days lost per 1,000 employees in employment
1979 29,474 1,273
1980 11,964 521
1981 4,266 195
1982 5,313 248
1983 3,754 178
1984 27,135 1,278
1985 6,402 299
1986 1,920 90
1987 3,546 164
1988 3,702 166
1989 4,128 182
1990 1,903 83
1991 761 34

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