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Lost Working Days

Volume 979: debated on Wednesday 20 February 1980

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asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish the aggregate number of working days lost through unemployment in 1978.

Multiplying the monthly average number of registered unemployed for 1978 by the estimated number of days worked in the year by those in employment gives very approximately 300 million days.