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Lost Working Days

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many working days have been lost due to industrial action by employees for which his Department is responsible in each year since 1997. (218050)

11,873 working days were lost as a result of strike action in the MOD, its agencies and non-departmental bodies; in the period 1997 to 2008, broken down as follows:

Days

1997

Nil

1998

Nil

1999

Nil

2000

771

2001

16

2002

267

2003

Nil

2004

2,664

2005

Nil

2006

Nil

2007

8,155

Industrial action short of a strike is not recorded in terms of working days lost.

The MOD is committed to working in partnership with its trade unions and makes every effort to avert industrial action of any kind.