HC Deb 05 April 1968 vol 762 cc165-7W
Mr. Arthur Lewis

asked the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1) what steps he intends to take to control the earnings of political party agents within an incomes policy;

(2) what steps he intends to take to control earnings of staff in the offices of political parties within an incomes policy;

(3) what steps he intends to take to control -.he earnings of industrial consultants within an incomes policy;

(4) what steps he intends to take to control the earnings of industrial advisers within an incomes policy;

(5) what steps he intends to take to control the earnings of chief constables within the Government's declared incomes policy;

(6) what steps he intends to take to control the earnings of newspaper proprietors within an incomes policy;

(7) what steps he intends to take to control the earnings of trade union officials within the incomes policy; and whether this will include the daily and weekly tax-free expenses that many of these officials receive;

(8) what steps he intends to take, within the Government's incomes policy, to control the earnings of Members of the House of Lords for activities outside Parliament; and whether this will take account of their four-and-a-half guineas per day subsistence allowance.

Mr. Frederick Lee

I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply given to my hon. Friend the Member for Derbyshire, North-East (Mr. Swain) on 2nd April, 1968.—[Vol. 762. c.71.]

Mr. Arthur Lewis

asked the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1) whether he will give details of how the Government's policy for exceeding the 3½ per cent. norm for increased productivity will apply so far as midwives are concerned;

(2) whether he will give details of how the Government's policy for exceeding the 3½ per cent. norm for increased productivity will apply so far as gynaecologists are concerned;

(3) whether he will give details of how the Government's policy of exceeding the 3½ per cent. norm for increased production will apply so far as bookmakers are concerned;

(4) whether he will give details of how the Government's policy of exceeding the 3½ per cent. norm for increased productivity will apply so far as surgeons are concerned;

(5) whether he will give details of how the Government's policy of exceeding the norm of 3½ per cent. for increased productivity will operate so far as morticians are concerned;

(6) whether he will give details of how the Government's policy of exceeding the 3½ per cent. norm for increased productivity will operate so far as grave-diggers are concerned;

(7) whether he will give details of how the Government's policy for exceeding the 3½ per cent. norm for increased productivity will apply so far as croupiers are concerned.

Mr. Frederick Lee

The White Paper published yesterday describes the exception to the ceiling of 3½ per cent. for genuine productivity agreements. Some of the groups mentioned in my hon. Friend's Questions fall outside the usual processes of collective bargaining but all those concerned are expected to observe the principles of the White Paper.