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 incidence and intensity of industrial disputes by the finest breakdown available by geographical area and the same figures adjusted to take into account differences in industrial structure between areas.

The following tables show the number of working days lost in stoppages and the number of working days lost in stoppages per 1,000 employees in employment for each standard region of the United Kingdom for the three latest available years, 1972 to 1974. These figures are not available adjusted for the industrial structure of each region. Information is not normally published in any greater geographical detail than this. Further 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 are still being assessed.