§ 70. Sir CHARLES OMANasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will consider the refraining of the Regulations under which the Whitley Councils of the Civil Service are constituted by providing that only persons actually in the service of the Crown should be eligible to represent their colleagues on the council, in view of the action of non-service members of the staff side of the Whitley Council during the general strike?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Ronald McNeillI regret that at the moment I am not in a position to add anything to the replies given to previous questions on this subject. The whole matter is receiving close attention.
§ Mr. W. THORNECan the hon. Gentleman say how many civil servants withheld their labour during the nine days' stoppage?