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50.
Sir C. Osborne
asked the Minister of Labour how many working days have been lost through strikes, official and unofficial, respectively, in 1966 to the latest convenient date; and what were the numbers in each of the past five years for the same period.
Mrs. Shirley Williams
Certain stoppages are known to have been official, but it is not known whether the remainder were official.The number of days lost in all stoppages in progress and the number of days lost in stoppages known to be official in the first five months of each of the years 1961 to 1966 were:
| All stoppages in progress (thousands) | Stoppages known to be official | |||
| 1961 | … | … | 1,679 | 425 |
| 1962 | … | … | 4,526 | 3,653 |
| 1963 | … | … | 490 | 62 |
| 1964 | … | … | 1,211 | 457 |
| 1965 | … | … | 1,681 | 426 |
| 1966 | … | … | 945 | 326 |