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Public Sector Working Days Lost
Lord Campbell of Alloway asked Her Majesty's Government:
- Whether they will give figures for each year between 1996 and 2001, for working days lost in the
- public sector as a percentage of all working days lost, with separate figures for transport (road, rail, sea and air), post and telecommunications sectors.[HL3718]
Lord McIntosh of Haringey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter to Lord Campbell of Alloway from the National Statistician and Registrar General, dated April 2002.
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent question about the percentage of working days lost in the public sector and in other industry groups.[HL3718]
I have assumed that your question relates to working days lost due to industrial action.
There are no statistics specifically for the public sector but figures on the public administration, education and health industries provide most of the information on the public sector as it is today. Figures on the transport sector and the post and telecommunications sector are collected as a group and cannot be separated.
The available information is shown in the table below:
| Public Administration, education and health industries SIC*75, 80,85 | Transport, post and telcommunications sector SIC*60-64 | |
| 1996 | 23 | 68 |
| 1997 | 28 | 15 |
| 1998 | 18 | 49 |
| 1999 | 27 | 21 |
| 2000 | 44 | 19 |
| 2001 | 63 | 20 |
* Standard Industrial Classification.