Lost Working Days

To ask the Solicitor-General how many working days have been lost due to industrial action by employees for which the Law Officer’s Department is responsible in each year since 1997. (218057)

The following tables provide the details of the number of working days lost due to industrial action. These are broken down by the different Departments as records are not held in the same way. Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office has lost 22 working days due to industrial action since its creation in April 2005.

*Attorney-General’s Office, Treasury Solicitors Department and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate*
Financial year	Total days lost
2006-07	42
2007-08	30
Note: Figures for earlier years are not available.

*Crown Prosecution Service*¹
Calendar year	Total days lost
2001	1,005
2002	0
2003	0
2004	1,040
2005	0
2006	0
2007	2,089
¹ The HR recording system counts industrial action as special leave without pay. The figures above will therefore include genuine cases of special leave.

*Serious Fraud Office*¹
Financial year	Working days lost
2006-07	1
2007-08	1
¹ The SFO records only show the number of industrial actions which SFO staff participated in, not how many staff were absent from work on these days.

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008