Trade Union Bill

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government – in the House of Commons at 3:35 pm on 14 September 2015.

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Photo of Richard Fuller Richard Fuller Conservative, Bedford 3:35, 14 September 2015

My right hon. Friend was absolutely right to have a consultation on the additional 40% hurdle. He has talked about it in reference to the emergency services and other important services, but does he not agree that there is another issue: if we compare changes in strike action in the public and private sectors since the end of the last century, we see that over that 15-year period the number of strike days in the private sector has halved, but in the public sector the number has doubled?