Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 October 1991.
Eric Forth
, Mid Worcestershire
12:00,
22 October 1991
There were 630 stoppages in the 12 months to December 1990, 701 in the previous 12 months and an annual average in the 1980s of 1,129. Provisional figures for the year to August 1991 show there have been 420 stoppages, the lowest number of any 12-month period since the year to April 1934.
