§ Mr. Rhys Daviesasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will state the reasons leading the official side of the Civil Service National Whitley Council to invoke the principles of Ministerial responsibility to justify executive action being taken in a matter of the remuneration of new entrants to the tax office grade, having regard to the fact that a dispute on pay is clearly appropriate for settlement by the Civil Service Arbitration Tribunal?
§ Lieut.-Colonel ColvilleI would refer the hon. Member to the answer which I gave on 7th June to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent (Mr. E. Smith).