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Mr. Favell
asked the Paymaster General how many days were lost through industrial disputes in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available in (a) the public sector and (b) the private sector.
Mr. Lee
The statistics are as follows
| Working days lost through industrial disputes | |||
| United Kingdom: Thousand | |||
| Year | Public sector | Private sector | Total |
| 1977 | 2,087 | 8,055 | 10,142 |
| 1978 | 1,433 | 7,972 | 9,405 |
| 1979 | 5,052 | 24,423 | 29,474 |
| 1980 | 9,825 | 2,139 | 11,964 |
| 1981 | 1,866 | 2,400 | 4,266 |
| 1982 | 3,378 | 1,935 | 5,313 |
| 1983 | 1,831 | 1,923 | 3,754 |
| 1984 | 23,866 | 3,270 | 27,135 |
| 1985 | 5,591 | 810 | 6,402 |
| 19861 | 874 | 977 | 1,852 |
| 1 Figures for 1986 are provisional. | |||
| Disputes are classified by sector as at the time of that occurrence. | |||