§ Return ordered, "showing, in relation to the principal local authorities in England and Wales (i.e., county councils, town councils, urban district councils, Metropolitan borough councils, rural district councils, and boards of guardians), and to the provisions included in any contracts for the execution of works or the supply of materials entered into by those local authorities:—
- (1) The number of local authorities that have adopted in such contracts clauses containing conditions as to
334 rates of wages and other matters affecting workpeople in employment, to the effect of those set out in the circular letter of the Local Government Board dated the 2nd day of September, 1911; - (2) The names of any local authorities that have adopted in such contracts clauses containing conditions of the above-mentioned subjects, but differing substantially from the clauses set out in the circular letter referred to, and the text of any such different clauses so adopted;
- (3) The names of any local authorities that have not adopted any such clauses in such contracts entered into since the 31st day of December, 1911;
- (4) In the case of local authorities coming within sub-divisions (1) and (2) of the Return; (a) whether the clauses have been adopted in all such contracts, and, if not, why not; (b) whether the clauses have extended to workpeople not engaged upon work performed under such contracts but employed by the contractor on other work;
- (5)—(a) What complaints, if any, have been received by the local authorities since the 1st day of January, 1912, as to the non-observance of any such clauses adopted by them; and (b) what measures have been taken by them, either by means of inspection or otherwise, to secure the observance of such clauses." [Mr. Goldstone.]