§ Resolved,
§ That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to establish machinery for promoting the improvement of industrial relations and to amend the law relating to workers' rights and otherwise to amend the law relating to workers, employers, trade unions and employers' associations, it is expedient to authorise—
- (1) the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of expenses incurred by Mr. Speaker or by any person designated by him under any provision of the new Act extending employment legislation to staff of this House;
- (2) the payment of sums into or out of the National Loans Fund in consequence of any provision of the new Act whereby the Treasury is authorised to make advances, subject to a limit of £10 million in the aggregate outstanding by way of principal, to the Secretary of State for the purposes of the Maternity Pay Fund;
- (3) the payment into the Consolidated Fund out of the Maternity Pay Fund of sums equal to the amount of any expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in exercising his functions under the provisions of the new Act in relation to maternity pay.—[Mr. Booth.]