§ Question proposed, That the Clause stand part of the Bill.
§ Mr. MurrayThis is an enabling Clause dealing with the power of the Supreme Court of England to make rules to cover cases where actions of 418 damages are pending and to enable such actions to be assessed in the ordinary courts while procedure is taking place under the Bill in industrial tribunals. Similar procedures are provided for the Court of Session in Scotland. As I have been asked by at least one of my hon. Friends what an "Act of Sederunt" in subsection (2) means, I hasten to say that these formidable words merely refer to the power to make similar rules in the Scottish Supreme Court.
The importance of this Clause is that it provides us for the first time with the 419 opportunity of considering the part which industrial tribunals are to play under the Bill. Because of the guillotine, we have had no opportunity to discuss any Clause or part of a Clause under Part VI of the Bill.
The industrial tribunals were set up under the Industrial Training Act, 1964, to determine appeals by persons assessed to training levies which were imposed under that Act. Their functions have been extended several times by subsequent Acts. The Redundancy Payments Act, 1965, deals with the problems of entitlement to redundancy which arise when there is a stoppage of work after an employer has given notice to an employee of termination of employment. That is dealt with in Section 40. Section 42 deals with the question of the right to or amount of redundancy payments in the case of certain public employees who, because of the nature of their employment, are not entitled to redundancy payments but are given certain payments as if they are entitled. Disputes under these provisions are sent to the industrial tribunals.
The Redundancy Payments Act. 1965, extended the jurisdiction of industrial tribunals to deal with cases in which employers failed to provide a written statement of terms of employment under the Contracts of Employment Act, 1963. An employee was given the right to apply to an industrial tribunal to determine what terms should be included if the employer did not comply with his obligation under Section 4 of that Act as amended.
By the Docks and Harbours Act, 1966, industrial tribunals were empowered to determine disputes about the meaning of dock work. Under the Selective Employment Payments Act, 1966, they were given jurisdiction to decide whether a business or part of a business was an establishment within the meaning of the Act, so attracting selective employment payments, and to adjudicate on the amount of any such payment under the Act.
Those are the limits of the functions which industrial tribunals exercise, although they will exercise further functions under the Equal Pay Act, 1970.
It is important for the Committee to note that the rôle of industrial tribunals 420 in all cases is essentially one of industrial arbitration on an individual employee's rights or an individual employer's rights.
In giving the industrial tribunals these jurisdictions, the legislature did not entrench in any way on industrial disputes. It did not give to the industrial tribunals any jurisdiction on industrial disputes in the sense in which the Bill deals with them. Nor did it encroach in any way on the ordinary functions of the courts in law. This is changed by the Bill. It would be fair to say that industrial tribunals under the Bill are made into mini-courts on the model of the National Industrial Relations Court. This is done by Clause 89 and Schedule 5, neither of which we have been given an opportunity to discuss. A blank cheque is given in Schedule 5 to the Secretary of State to determine by regulations the precise jurisdiction that these tribunals shall have, and also to make the Secretary of State, if he so chooses, a party to any proceedings, although—to use the language of the Bill—he is on the face of it an extraneous party. This is an important result, and it is deplorable that we have not had an opportunity to discuss the important principle which lies in this transmutation of industrial tribunals from arbitral bodies into mini-courts.
8.30 p.m.
The Bill gives industrial tribunals extensive powers. This was referred to in the last debate when the question of legal aid in regard to these tribunals was mentioned. It was noted by the Committee at that point that by Clause 99 the Bill provides for the conferring of jurisdiction for breach of contract on these tribunals. That conferring of jurisdiction has not yet been made. It is merely, as the Solicitor-General pointed out, put in as an enabling power. But when one looks at the rubric to Clause 116, which reads
Unfair industrial practice in breach of contract of employmentone cannot doubt that this will be associated with an exercise of the enabling power under Clause 99, and that in the not so distant future industrial tribunals, in addition to the functions which I shall mention in a moment, will deal with actions of damages for breach of contract of employment. 421 Apart from that enabling provision, the Bill gives to the industrial tribunals power to award compensation under Clause 97(2)(b). It has power to deal with complaints by employees of unfair industrial practices in breach of workers' rights under Clause 5, which, as we have already seen, is very extensive and far-reaching. Industrial tribunals are also given power to deal with unfair dismissal under Clause 20, and that is dealt with in Clause 94. They are also given powers to deal with complaints against employees' or workers' organisations on the grounds of breach of the guiding principles for workers' organisations in regard to membership and participation in activities. That jurisdiction, together with jurisdiction for corresponding breaches in regard to employers' organisations, is given to industrial tribunals under Clause 95. These breaches are far-reaching in their effect, and industrial tribunals are being given considerable jurisdiction, analogous to that of the National Industrial Relations Court.Under Clause 96 industrial tribunals are given a similar jurisdiction in regard to complaints by the registrar. Once again it is important to stress that the registrar, who is to play an important role under the Bill, will have power to bring complaints to the industrial tribunal, just as he has power to originate complaints to the National Industrial Relations Court.
Industrial tribunals are constituted at present under Statutory Instrument—this can be changed, I presume, by Statutory Instrument—and they consist of a legally qualified chairman and two members—one employers' representative and one workers' representative. When considering the albeit limited jurisdiction which is given to industrial tribunals, we must remember that the Bill gives them legal functions which, by adding a crushing burden of legalism, will have the effect of squeezing out all hope of moderation and the climate of arbitration in which industrial relations can prosper. That is what worries me about this provision. We have said repeatedly that the trouble with the National Industrial Relations Court is that it is trying to introduce the heavy hand of the law where a more delicate touch would be appropriate. The same can be said of the industrial tribunals, moderated only by the fact that 422 industrial tribunals have been given a lesser rôle to play.
I conclude by stressing that by giving legal functions to essentially arbitral tribunals one is placing upon a committee of three—one legally qualified chairman, one employers' representative and one workers' representative—an enormous burden of legal interpretation and legal application of the law to industrial problems. This is in complete contrast to the functions which industrial tribunals were set up to carry out. They were essentially appointed to deal with disputes of fact of a comparatively minor nature arising in a comparatively non-controversial sphere of industry. This is being changed, and they are being given a controversial rôle, and I regard this as a thoroughly retrograde step.
§ The Solicitor-GeneralThe hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Mr. Murray) suggests that the nature of the tribunals is being transformed. That is not a fair presentation of the rôle of the tribunals under the Bill.
The essence of the tribunals, as they have grown up over the years, is that they exercise judicial rights and decide legal disputes as to right. They cannot be compared with the Industrial Court, which does straight arbitration as between two claims, because they handle a large number of cases under the Redundancy Payments Act involving the determination of questions of fact and of right. They handle a much smaller number of cases, under the jurisdiction transferred to them from the pension appeals tribunals as well as under a number of other statutes mentioned by the hon. and learned Gentleman, not many under each but all involving the application of detailed law to the facts of different situations. They are distinguished by the fact that they are dealing with claims by individuals against their employers, leaving on one side the industrial training levy cases and selective employment premium cases.
When one mentions these in the same breath, it is plain that these tribunals have become sophisticated bodies dealing with a wide range of subjects but principally dealing with claims of right affecting individuals. This is the role they will continue under the provisions of the Bill. 423 They are to have transferred to them what will be the largest part of their new jurisdiction —namely, questions of unfair dismissal—as was to have been the case under the Labour Government's Bill. This major addition to their rôle will involve cases of the same quality as redundancy payments cases; individual claims raising individual questions against organisations. The new matter that is being transferred to them beyond what was to have been transferred by the former Government's Bill is in regard to cases in which the right to belong or not to belong to a trade union or workers' organisation is in question. Again, those are cases involving individual claims against an organisation comparable in quality and nature to claims that an individual would make against his employer.
In the Government's view, this is not a transformation in any dramatic sense of the kind of work the tribunal will have to do. The additional matter that is being transferred to the tribunals which is the subject of Clause 116 is dependent on the exercise of the powers under Clause 99 to transfer actions for breach of contract to the tribunals. That is a reproduction of Clause 79 or possibly Clause 80 of the Labour Government's Bill, which has also a prospective power was recommended by Donovan to give these more local, more informal and more industrially sophisticated three-man tribunals responsibility for deciding cheaply and informally questions which might never be decided at all; namely, as to holiday entitlement, as to the way
| Division No. 190.] | AYES | [8.40 p.m. |
| Alison, Michael (Barkston Ash) | Braine, Bernard | Cockeram, Eric |
| Allason, James (Hemel Hempstead) | Bray, Ronald | Cooke, Robert |
| Astor, John | Brewis, John | Coombs, Derek |
| Atkins, Humphrey | Brocklebank-Fowler, Christopher | Cooper, A. E. |
| Awdry, Daniel | Brown, Sir Edward (Bath) | Cordle, John |
| Baker, W. H. K. (Banff) | Bruce-Gardyne, J. | Corfield, Rt. Hn. Frederick |
| Balniel, Lord | Bryan, Paul | Cormack, Patrick |
| Barber, Rt. Hn. Anthony | Buchanan-Smith, Alick(Angus,N&M) | Costain, A. P. |
| Batsford, Brian | Buck, Antony | Critchley, Julian |
| Bell, Ronald | Bullus, Sir Eric | Crouch, David |
| Bennett, Sir Frederic (Torquay) | Butler, Adam (Bosworth) | Crowder, F. P. |
| Bennett, Dr. Reginald (Gosport) | Campbell, Rt.Hn.G.(Moray&Nairn) | Curran, Charles |
| Benyon, W. | Carlisle, Mark | Dalkeith, Earl of |
| Berry, Hn. Anthony | Cary, Sir Robert | Davies, Rt. Hn. John (Knutsford) |
| Biffen, John | Channon, Paul | d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Sir Henry |
| Biggs-Davison, John | Chapman, Sydney | d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Maj.-Gen. Jack |
| Blaker, Peter | Chataway, Rt. Hn. Christopher | Dean, Paul |
| Boardman, Tom (Leicester, S.W.) | Chichester-Clark, R. | Digby, Simon Wingfield |
| Body, Richard | Churchill, W. S. | Dixon, Piers |
| Boscawen, Robert | Clark, William (Surrey, E.) | Dodds-Parker, Douglas |
| Bossom, Sir Clive | Clarke, Kenneth (Rushcliffe) | Drayson, G. B. |
| Bowden, Andrew | Clegg, Walter | du Cann, Rt. Hn. Edward |
§ in which employers fulfil the terms of contracts of employment, and so on. It is right in our view, as in the view of the Labour Government, that power should be taken to transfer those cases to tribunals although the power will not be exercised immediately.
§ Clause 116 is the corresponding Clause to Clause 81 of the Labour Government's Bill, enabling the court to make rules as to how these matters should be handled once this jurisdiction is given to the tribunals. The Clause bites on only a small area of jurisdiction. It is only those cases which involve breaches of contract in respect of which jurisdiction has been transferred when the order has been made to industrial tribunals which are effected by this Clause. Whether it be by rule of court or act of sederunt, these consequential changes will be made to allow the tribunals to go on handling, with the expertise that they have built up in their eight years of existence, this kind of case affecting individual claims on individual rights, whether against an employer or against organisations of workers.
§ It is for that reason that I invite the Committee to allow this Clause to stand part of the Bill. It is an essential part of the machinery for bringing speedy and informal justice for individuals into these informal tribunals.
§ Question put, That the Clause stand part of the Bill:—
§ The Committee divided: Ayes, 278, Noes 247.
| Dykes, Hugh | Kershaw, Anthony | Ramsden, Rt. Hn. James |
| Eden, Sir John | Kilfedder, James | Rawlinson, Rt. Hn. Sir Peter |
| Edwards, Nicholas (Pembroke) | King, Evelyn (Dorset, S.) | Redmond, Robert |
| Elliot, Capt. Walter (Carshalton) | King, Tom (Bridgwater) | Reed, Laurance (Bolton, E.) |
| Elliott, R. W. (N'c'tle-upon-Tyne,N.) | Kinsey, J. R. | Rees, Peter (Dover) |
| Emery, Peter | Kirk, Peter | Rees-Davies, W. R. |
| Eyre, Reginald | Kitson, Timothy | Renton, Rt. Hn. Sir David |
| Farr, John | Knox, David | Rhys Williams, Sir Brandon |
| Fell, Anthony | Lambton, Antony | Ridley, Hn. Nicholas |
| Fenner, Mrs. Peggy | Lane, David | Ridsdale, Julian |
| Finsberg, Geoffrey (Hampstead) | Langford-Holt, Sir John | Rippon, Rt. Hn. Geoffrey |
| Fisher, Nigel (Surbiton) | Legge-Bourke, Sir Harry | Roberts, Michael (Cardiff, N.) |
| Fletcher-Cooke, Charles | Lewis, Kenneth (Rutland) | Roberts, Wyn (Conway) |
| Fookes, Miss Janet | Lloyd,Rt.Hn.Georey(Sut'nC'dfield) | Rodgers, Sir John (Sevenoaks) |
| Fraser,Rt.Hn.Hugh(St'fford & Stone) | Lloyd, Ian (P'tsm'th, Langstone) | Rost, Peter |
| Fry, Peter | Longden, Gilbert | Royle, Anthony |
| Galbraith, Hn. T. G. | Loveridge, John | Russell, Sir Ronald |
| Gardner, Edward | MacArthur, Ian | Scott-Hopkins, James |
| Gibson-Watt, David | McCrindle, R. A. | Sharpies, Richard |
| Gilmour, Ian (Norfolk, C.) | McLaren, Martin | Shaw, Michael (Sc'b'gh & Whitby) |
| Gilmour, Sir John (Fife, E.) | Maclean, Sir Fitzroy | Shelton, William (Clapham) |
| Glyn, Dr. Alan | McMaster, Stanley | Simeon, Charles |
| Godber, Rt. Hn. J. B. | Macmillan, Maurice (Farnham) | Skeet, T. H. H. |
| Goodhart, Philip | McNair-Wilson, Michael | Smith, Dudley (W'wick & L'mington) |
| Goodhew, Victor | McNair-Wilson, Patrick (NewForest) | Soref, Harold |
| Gorst, John | Maddan, Martin | Speed, Keith |
| Gower, Raymond | Maginnis, John E. | Spence, John |
| Grant, Anthony (Harrow, C.) | Marten, Neil | Sproat, Iain |
| Gray, Hamish | Maude, Angus | Stainton, Keith |
| Green, Alan | Maudling, Rt. Hn. Reginald | Stanbrook, Ivor |
| Grieve, Percy | Mawby, Ray | Stewart-Smith, D. G. (Belper) |
| Grimond, Rt. Hn. J. | Maxwell-Hyslop, R. J. | Stodart, Anthony (Edinburgh, W.) |
| Grylls, Michael | Meyer, Sir Anthony | Stoddart-Scott, Col. Sir M. |
| Gummer, Selwyn | Mills, Peter (Torrington) | Stokes, John |
| Gurden, Harold | Mills, Stratton, (Belfast, N.) | Stuttaford, Dr. Tom |
| Hall, Miss Joan (Keighley) | Miscampbell, Norman | Sutcliffe, John |
| Hall, John (Wycombe) | Mitchell,Lt.-Col.C.(Aberdeenshire, W) | Tapsell, Peter |
| Hall-Davis, A. G. F. | Mitchell, David (Basingstoke) | Taylor, Sir Charles (Eastbourne) |
| Hamilton, Michael (Salisbury) | Moate, Roger | Taylor, Frank (Moss Side) |
| Hannam, John (Exeter) | Molyneaux, James | Taylor, Robert (Croydon, N.W.) |
| Harrison, Brian (Maldon) | Money, Ernie | Tebbit, Norman |
| Harvey, Sir Arthur Vere | Monks, Mrs. Connie | Temple, John M. |
| Haselhurst, Alan | Montgomery, Fergus | Thatcher, Rt. Hn. Mrs. Margaret |
| Havers, Michael | More, Jasper | Thomas, John Stradling (Monmouth) |
| Hawkins, Paul | Morgan, Geraint (Denbigh) | Thompson, Sir Richard (Croydon, S.) |
| Hay, John | Morgan-Giles, Rear-Adm. | Trafford, Dr. Anthony |
| Hayhoe, Barney | Mudd, David | Trew, Peter |
| Heseltine, Michael | Murton, Oscar | Turton, Rt. Hn. R. H. |
| Hicks, Robert | Nabarro, Sir Gerald | Van Straubenzee, W. R. |
| Higgins, Terence L. | Neave, Airey | Vickers, Dame Joan |
| Hiley, Joseph | Nicholls, Sir Harmar | Waddington, David |
| Hill, John E. B. (Norfolk, S.) | Noble, Rt. Hn. Michael | Walden, David (Clitheroe) |
| Hill, James (Southampton, Test) | Normanton, Tom | Walker, Rt. Hn. Peter (Worcester) |
| Holland, Philip | Nott, Jobn | Walker-Smith, Rt. Hn. Sir Derek |
| Holt, Miss Mary | Onslow, Cranley | Wall, Patrick |
| Hooson, Emlyn | Onslow, Cranley | Walters, Dennis |
| Hordern, Peter | Oppenheim, Mrs. Sally | Ward, Dame Irene |
| Hornby, Richard | Orr, Capt. L. P. S. | Warren, Kenneth |
| Hornsby-Smith,Rt.Hn.DamePatricia | Osborn, John | Weatherill, Bernard |
| Howe, Hn. Sir Geoffrey (Reigate) | Owen, Idris (Stockport, N.) | Wells, John (Maidstone) |
| Howell, David (Guildford) | Page, Graham (Crosby) | White, Roger, (Gravesend) |
| Howell, Ralph (Norfolk, N.) | Page, John (Harrow, W.) | Wiggin, Jerry |
| Hunt, John | Parkinson, Cecil (Enfield, W.) | Wilkinson, John |
| Hutchison, Michael Clark | Percival, Ian | Wolrige- Gordon, Patrick |
| Iremonger, T. L. | Pike, Miss Mervyn | Woodhouse, Hn. Christpher |
| James, David | Pink, R. Bonner | Worsley, Marcus |
| Jenkin, Patrick (Woodford) | Pounder, Rafton | Wylie, Rt. Hn. N. R. |
| Jessel, Toby | Powell, Rt. Hn. J. Enoch | Younger, Hn. George |
| Johnson Smith G. (E. Grinstead) | Prior, Rt. Hn. J. M. L. | |
| Jopling, Michael | Pym, Rt. Hn. Francis | TELLERS FOR THE AYES: |
| Joseph, Rt. Hn. Sir Keith | Quennell, Miss J. M. | Mr. Tim Fortescue and |
| Kellett, Mrs. Elaine | Raison, Timothy | Mr. Hugh Rossi. |
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| Albu, Austen | Bagier, Gordon A. T. | Booth, Albert |
| Allaun, Frank (Salford, E.) | Barnett, Joel | Bradley, Tom |
| Allen, Scholefield | Beaney, Alan | Brown, Bob (N'c'tle-upon-Tyne,W.) |
| Archer, Peter (Rowley Regis) | Bennett, James (Glasgow, Bridgeton) | Brown, Hugh D. (G'gow, Provan) |
| Armstrong, Ernest | Bidwell, Sydney | Brown, Ronald (Shoreditch & F'bury) |
| Ashley, Jack | Bishop, E. S. | Buchan, Norman |
| Ashton, Joe | Blenkinsop, Arthur | Butler, Mrs. Joyce (Wood Green) |
| Atkinson, Norman | Boardman, H. (Leigh) | Callaghan, Rt. Hn. James |
| Campbell, I. (Dunbartonshire, W.) | Huckfield, Leslie | Paget, R. T. |
| Cant, R. B. | Hughes, Rt. Hn. Cladwyn (Anglesey) | Palmer, Arthur |
| Carmichael, Neil | Hughes, Mark (Durham) | Pannell, Rt. Hn. Charles |
| Carter, Ray (Birmingham, Northfield) | Hughes, Roy (Newport) | Parker, John (Dagenham) |
| Carter-Jones, Lewis (Eccles) | Hunter, Adam | Parry, Robert (Liverpool, Exchange) |
| Castle, Rt. Hn. Barbara | Irvine,Rt.Hn.SirArthur(Edge Hill) | Pavitt, Laurie |
| Clark, David (Colne Valley) | Janner, Greville | Peart, Rt. Hn. Fred |
| Cocks, Michael (Bristol, S.) | Jay, Rt. Hn. Douglas | Pendry, Tom |
| Cohen, Stanley | Jeger,Mrs.Lena(H'b'n&St.P'cras,S.) | Pentland, Norman |
| Concannon, J. D. | Jenkins, Hugh (Putney) | Perry, Ernest G. |
| Conlan, Bernard | John, Brynmor | Prantice, Rt. Hn. Reg. |
| Corbet, Mrs. Freda | Johnson, Carol (Lewisham, S.) | Prescott, John |
| Cox, Thomas (Wandsworth, C.) | Johnson, James (K'ston-on-Hull, W.) | Price, J. T. (Westhoughton) |
| Crawshaw, Richard | Johnson, Walter (Derby, S.) | Probert, Arthur |
| Cronin, John | Jones, Barry (Flint, E.) | Rankin, John |
| Crosland, Rt. Hn. Anthony | Jones, Dan (Burnley) | Reed, D. (Sedgefield) |
| Crossman, Rt. Hn. Richard | Jones,Rt.Hn.Sir Elwyn(W.Ham,S.) | Rees, Merlyn (Leeds, S.) |
| Cunningham, G. (Islington, S.W.) | Jones, Gwynoro (Carmarthen) | Rhodes, Geoffrey |
| Dalyell, Tam | Judd, Frank | Richard, Ivor |
| Darling, Rt. Hn. George | Kaufman, Gerald | Roberts, Albert (Normanton) |
| Davidson, Arthur | Kelley, Richard | Roberts,Rt.Hn.Goronwy(Caernarvon) |
| Davies, Denzil (Llanelly) | Kerr, Russell | Robertson, John (Paisley) |
| Davies, G. Elfed (Rhondda, E.) | Kinnock, Neil | Roderick, Caerwyn E.(Br'c'n&R'dnor) |
| Davies, S. O. (Merthyr Tydvil) | Lambie, David | Rodgers, William (Stockton-on-Tees) |
| Davis, Clinton (Hackney, C.) | Lamond, James | Roper, John |
| Deakins, Eric | Latham, Arthur | Rose, Paul B. |
| Delargy, H. J. | Lawson, George | Ross, Rt. Hn. William (Kilmarnock) |
| Dell, Rt. Hn. Edmund | Leadbitter, Ted | Sheldon, Robert (Ashton-under-Lyne) |
| Dempsey, James | Lee, Rt. Hn. Frederick | Shore, Rt. Hn. Peter (Stepney) |
| Doig, Peter | Leonard, Dick | Short,Rt.Hn. Edward(N'c'tle-u-Tyne) |
| Dormand, J. D. | Lestor, Miss Joan | Short, Mrs. Renée (W'hampton,N.E.) |
| Douglas, Dick (Stirlingshire, E.) | Lewis, Arthur (W. Ham N.) | Silkin, Hn. S. C. (Dulwich) |
| Douglas-Mann, Bruce | Lewis, Ron (Carlisle) | Sillars, James |
| Driberg, Tom | Lipton, Marcus | Silverman, Julius |
| Duffy, A. E. P. | Lomas, Kenneth | Skinner, Dennis |
| Dunn, James A. | Loughlin, Charles | Small, William |
| Dunnett, Jack | Lyon, Alexander W. (York) | Smith, John (Lanarkshire, N.) |
| Eddie, Alex | Lyons, Edward (Bradford, E.) | Spearing, Nigel |
| Edwards, Robert (Bilston) | Mabon, Dr. J. Dickson | Spriggs, Leslie |
| Edwards, William (Merioneth) | McBride, Neil | Stallard, A. W. |
| Ellis, Tom | McCartney, Hugh | Stoddart, David (Swindon) |
| English, Michael | McElhone, Frank | Storehouse, Rt. Hn. John |
| Evans, Fred | McGuire, Michael | Strang, Gavin |
| Fernyhough, Rt. Hn. E. | Mackenzie, Gregor | Strauss, Rt. Hn. G. R. |
| Fisher, Mrs.Doris(B'ham,Ladywood) | Mackie, John | Summerskill, Hn. Dr. Shirley |
| Fitch, Alan (Wigan) | Mackintosh, John P. | Swain, Thomas |
| Fletcher, Ted (Darlington) | Maclennan, Robert | Taverne, Dick |
| Foley, Maurice | McMillan, Tom (Glasgow, C.) | Thomas,Rt.Hn.George (Cardiff,W.) |
| Foot, Michael | McNamara, J. Kevin | Thomas, Jeffrey (Abertillery) |
| Ford, Ben | MacPherson, Malcolm | Thomson, Rt. Hn. G. (Dundee, E.) |
| Forrester, John | Mahon, Simon (Bootle) | Tinn, James |
| Fraser, John (Norwood) | Mallalieu, J. P. W. (Huddersfield, E.) | Tomney, Frank |
| Freeson, Reginald | Marks, Kenneth | Tuck, Raphael |
| Galpern, Sir Myer | Marquand, David | Urwin, T. W. |
| Garrett, W. E. | Mason, Rt. Hn. Roy | Valey, Eric G. |
| Gilbert, Dr. John | Meacher, Michael | Wainwright, Edwin |
| Ginsburg, David | Mellish, Rt. Hn. Robert | Walker, Harold (Doncaster) |
| Golding, John | Mendelson, John | Wallace, George |
| Gourlay, Harry | Mikardo, Ian | Watkins, David |
| Grant, George (Morpeth) | Millan, Bruce | Weitzman, David |
| Grant, John D. (Islington, E.) | Miller, Dr. M. S. | Wellbeloved, James |
| Griffiths, Eddie (Brightside) | Mine, Edward (Blyth) | Wells, William (Walsall, N.) |
| Griffiths, Will (Exchange) | Molloy, William | White, James (Glasgow, Pollok) |
| Hamilton, James (Bothwell) | Morris, Alfred (Wythenshawe) | Whitehead, Phillip |
| Hamilton, William (Fife, W.) | Morris, Charles R. (Openshaw) | Whitlock, William |
| Handing, William | Morris, Rt. Hn. John (Aberavon) | Willey, Rt. Hn. Frederick |
| Hannan, William (G'gow, Maryhill) | Moyle, Roland | Williams, Alan (Swansea, W.) |
| Hardy, Peter | Mulley, Rt. Hn. Frederick | Williams, Mrs. Shirley (Hitchin) |
| Harrison, Walter (Wakefield) | Murray, Ronald King | Williams, W. T. (Warrington) |
| Hart, Rt. Hn. Judith | Ogden, Eric | Wilson, Alexander (Hamilton) |
| Hattersley, Roy | O'Halloran, Michael | Wilson, William (Coventry, S.) |
| Heffer, Eric S. | O'Malley, Brian | |
| Hilton, W. S. | Oram, Bert | TELLERS FOR THE NOES: |
| Horam, John | Orme, Stanley | Mr. Joseph Harper and |
| Houghton, Rt. Hn. Douglas | Oswald, Thomas | Mr. Donald Coleman. |
| Howell, Denis (Small Heath) | Owen, Dr. David (Plymouth, Sutton) |
§ Clause 116 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
429§ [Mr. E.L. MALLALIEU in the Chair]