HC Deb 31 October 1946 vol 428 c780
51. Squadron-Leader Sir Gifford Fox

asked the Minister of Labour why the employment exchange has overruled the Appeal Board in the case of D. G. Tyler, Rose Hill, Oxford, about which his Department has been informed, forcing him to be a permanent navvy under the Essential Work Order.

Mr. Isaacs

The appeal board recommendation that Mr. Tyler should be allowed to leave his employment as a builder's labourer has not been overruled. A further question of his taking other work arose under the Control of Engagement Orders, and it has now been decided that he should be allowed to take up the employment he has in view.

Sir G. Fox

Is it not a fact that the local employment exchange tried to overrule the appeal board and, since I have put this Question down, the exchange have had to bow to the ruling of the appeal board?

Mr. Isaacs

The hon. and gallant Gentleman has not got his facts right. The appeal board were asked only whether he was allowed to leave his old employment. This man is still under direction, as he is in the building industry, and whilst he is allowed to go from one job to another that does not mean automatically that he can leave the building industry. When we looked at the alternative employment which he was seeking, we decided he should have permission to transfer.