AGRICULTURAL WAGES (REGULATION) ACT 1924. (Hansard, 11 March 1940)

HC Deb 11 March 1940 vol 358 cc817-8 817

§ Minimum weekly rates of wages for ordinary adult male workers as at 11th March, 1940.

Committee Area.	Wages.
s.	d.
Beds. and Hunts	37	0
Berkshire	36	0
Buckinghamshire	38	0
Cambs. and Isle of Ely	37	0
Cheshire	39	0

818

Committee Area.	Wages.
s.	d.
Cornwall	37	0
Cumberland and Westmorland	37	6
	36	0
Derbyshire	40	0
Devonshire	38	0
Dorset	37	6
Durham	35	6
Essex	36	6
Gloucestershire	35	0
Hants and Isle of Wight	37	0
Herefordshire	37	0
Hertfordshire	37	0
Kent	38	0
Lancashire (S. Area)	38	0
Lancashire (Rest of County)	43	0
Leicestershire	38	0
Rutland	36	6
Lincs. (Holland)	40	0
Lincs. (Kesteven and Lindsey)	39	0
Middlesex	40	7½
	39	0
Monmouthshire	35	0
Norfolk	36	6
Northants and Peterborough	37	6
Northumberland	36	6
Nottinghamshire	38	0
Oxford	37	6
Shropshire	38	0
Somerset	38	6
Staffordshire	38	0
Suffolk	36	0
Surrey	37	0
Sussex	37	6
Warwickshire	36	0
Wiltshire	36	0
Worcestershire	36	0
Yorkshire E. Riding	38	0
Yorkshire N. Riding	38	0
Yorkshire W. Riding	38	0
Anglesey and Caernarvon	34	0
Carmarthen	36	0
Denbigh and Flint	34	6
Glamorgan	39	0
Merioneth and Montgomery	34	0
Pembroke and Cardigan	35	0
Radnor and Brecon	36	0

§ 21. Mr. T. Smith
asked the Minister of Agriculture the position with regard to the proposed legislation for dealing with the wages of agricultural workers?

§ Sir R. Dorman-Smith
I am giving notice to-day of my intention to present a Bill to modify the machinery of wage fixation established by the Agricultural Wages (Regulation) Act, 1924. Copies of the Bill are expected to be available on Wednesday.

§ Mr. Smith
May we take it there will be no undue delay in bringing the Bill into law, in view of the fact that it is necessary to get a sufficient number of men?

Mr. De la Bère
May I again draw your attention, Mr. Speaker, to the fact that no real attempt has been made to give an answer to Question 19?