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Mr. Cant
asked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will publish separate unemployment statistics for Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme.
| September to December 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | |
| (a) Requests for conciliation | 656 | 2,564 | 3,460 |
| (b) Advisory work*— | |||
| Short advisory visits | 1,938 | 7,277 | 8,901 |
| Advisory surveys and projects | 65 | 208 | 208 |
| (c) Inquiries*† | — | — | — |
| (d) References to arbitration, mediation and panels of investigation. | 75 | 306 | 323 |
| (e) Trade union recognitions‡ references under s. 11 of the Employment Protection Act. | — | — | 461 |
| * These were not all connected with trade disputes. | |||
| † 19 longer-term investigations into industrial relations questions in individual companies or Industries were completed or underway during the period September 1974 to December 1976. | |||
| ‡ These references involved conciliation and in some cases inquiries. | |||