asked the Secretary of State for Employment what were the numbers of people working five days a week, four days a week, three days a week and less than three days a week, at the latest date for which figures are available.
Information about the number of days that people work during a particular week is not available. However, the monthly statistics of short-time working give an indication of the extent to which operatives in manufacturing industries work for less than their normal week because of short-time working. During the week ended 16th January 1975, about 128,000 operatives were on short-time. Of these, about 5,000 were stood off for the whole of the week and about 123,000 worked for part of the week.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report a table listing industries whose employees are working less than five days a week, specifying the number of employees affected in each case.
The precise information requested is not available. However, the monthly statistics give an indication of the extent to which operatives in manufacturing industries in Great Britain work for less than their normal week because of short-time working. An industrial analysis of the data relating to the week ended 18th January 1975 is set out in the following table:
| Number of operatives stood off or on short-time working | |
| Metal manufacture | 6,400 |
| Mechanical engineering | 9,400 |
| Electrical engineering | 16,300 |
| Shipbuilding and marine engineering | 1,000 |
| Vehicles | 22,100 |
| Metal goods not elsewhere specified | 8,500 |
| Textiles | 20,800 |
| Clothing and footwear | 21,500 |
| Bricks, pottery, glass, cement, etc | 5,600 |
| Timber, furniture, etc | 3,900 |
| Paper, printing and publishing | 3,700 |
| Other manufacturing industries | 9,000 |
| Total, all manufacturing industries | 128,200 |