§ 33. Mr. Biffenasked the First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs if he is satisfied that, for the purposes of supervising the incomes policy, his knowledge of the movements of incomes of employees who are not trade unionists is as comprehensive as that of incomes of trade unionists; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Frederick LeeThe arrangements for early warning of proposed increase in incomes apply to all the employees concerned, whether or not they are trade unionists, and these arrangements have worked well.
§ Mr. BiffenAs about 60 per cent. of all employees in this country are non-unionised, according to figures supplied by the Government, does the right hon. Gentleman think that his Ministry is being informed as comprehensively about 726 the movement of incomes among those people as among those who are unionised and covered by the voluntary arrangements of the T.U.C.?
§ Mr. LeeThere is no evidence whatever that employers are not informing us of the movements of wages and salaries irrespective of whether there is a majority of trade unionists in their employ or not.