§ Mr. PopeTo 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. McLoughlinA 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. PopeTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many days have been lost due to unauthorised industrial action in each year since 1989.
§ Mr. McLoughlinBecause 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. PopeTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many days have been lost due to46W industrial disputes in each of the years since 1979, expressed both as an absolute figure and as a proportion of employees in employment.
§ Mr. McLoughlinData 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