asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing, for each of the latest three years for which figures are available the proportion of establishments in manufacturing industry that had no officially recorded industrial disputes, one industrial dispute, two industrial disputes, and three or more industrial disputes, respectively.

Information is not normally analysed or presented in this way by the Department. However, an analysis on these lines has been one of a number of aspects of disputes that have been studied in the course of a research project within the Department. The results of this project are still being assessed.