South Africa (British Firms) (Hansard, 15 February 1977)

§ 9. Mr. Dell

Yes. The firms concerned have now had a year in which to reflect and act upon the modified request for disclosure of information on their practice in this field set out in my predecessor's Written Reply on 12th December 1975. A progress report to the House is therefore timely.

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Of the 320 companies which have or may have South African interests the position of 41 has still to be clarified; and 95 employ under 20 Africans. Of the remaining 184, 160 have published information or are making it available to inquirers or have declared their intention of publishing in their next annual report; 18 have published some information more limited than that sought by the White Paper; and only six have declined to publish.

The information now available on wages and conditions therefore covers the overwhelming majority of Africans employed by British subsidiaries in South Africa. Details of the response as at 11th February are given below.

The response shows considerable variation in the amount of information published. The reports give reasonable coverage to African wages, but less to the information sought on conditions of employment generally. Given the importance of the latter, I hope to see fuller coverage in subsequent reports.

A minority of firms have declined for various reasons to co-operate fully, or in some cases at all, on disclosure. Several firms have said that refusal to publish does not imply their unwillingness to implement the code of practice. However, they are not giving Parliament and the concerned public the opportunity of judging for themselves whether improvements are being made in the treatment of African labour. I hope that these firms will reconsider their position.

RESPONSE TO THE WHITE PAPER "WAGES AND CONDITIONS OF AFRICAN WORKERS EMPLOYED BY BRITISH FIRMS IN SOUTH AFRICA" (CMND 5845) AS AT 11 FEBRUARY 1977

Firms which have published information (or have indicated publicly that information is available): Total 70.

(a) Subsidiaries (50 per cent or more shareholding) employing 20 or more Africans

Amalgamated Power Engineering Ltd
APV Holdings Ltd
Armitage Shanks Group Ltd
Associated British Foods Ltd
Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd
Averys Ltd
Babcock and Wilcox Ltd
BBA Group Ltd
Beecham Group Ltd
Bestobell Ltd
BICC Ltd
Blackwood Hodge Ltd
Boots Co Ltd
British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd
British Oxygen Company Ltd
British Petroleum Co Ltd
J Brockhouse and Co Ltd
Brooke Bond Liebig Ltd
Burmah Oil Co Ltd
Cadbury Schweppes Ltd
Cape Industries Ltd
Carrington Viyella Ltd
Chubb and Son Ltd
Clarke Chapman Ltd
Coats Patons Ltd
A Cohen and Co (Great Britain) Ltd
Commercial Union Assurance Co Ltd
Comp Air International Ltd
Delta Metal Co Ltd
Dickinson Robinson Group Ltd
Dunlop Holdings Ltd
EMI Ltd
ERF Ltd
Ever Ready Co (Holdings) Ltd
J H Fenner and Co (Holdings) Ltd
Gestetner Holdings Ltd
Glynwed Ltd
Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd
Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd
Lead Industries Group Ltd.
Lindustries Ltd
Low and Bonar Group Ltd
Lowe and Fletcher Ltd
Metal Box Ltd
Mitchell Cotts Group Ltd
James Neill Holdings Ltd
Newman Tonks Ltd
Ozalid Group Holdings Ltd
Pilkington Brothers Ltd
Reckitt and Colman Ltd
Reed International Ltd
Reyrolle Parsons Ltd
Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation Ltd
Rowntree Mackintosh Ltd
Sanderson Kayser Ltd
SGB Group Ltd
Shell Transport and Trading Co Ltd
Simon Engineering Ltd
South West Africa Co Ltd
Spooner Industries Ltd
Standard Chartered Bank Ltd
Stone-Platt Industries Ltd
Tarmac Ltd
Tioxide Group Ltd
Turner and Newall Ltd
Unilever Ltd
Wilkinson Match Ltd

(b) Associates (less than 50 per cent. shareholding) employing 20 or more Africans

Bridon Ltd
Consolidated Goldfields Ltd
Swan Hunter Group Ltd

Firms which have not yet published, but intend to do so in their next Annual Report

Total 46

(a) Subsidiaries employing 20 or more Africans

AD International Ltd
Anderson Strathclyde
Armstrong Equipment
British Steel Corporation Ltd
British Vita Co Ltd
Coates Bros Ltd
Courtaulds
Drake and Scull Holdings Ltd
Dunford and Elliot Ltd
Fisons Ltd
Fodens Ltd
Formica Ltd
Foseco Minsep Ltd
Great Universal Stores Ltd
Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd
P C Henderson Ltd
Hunting Group
H and R Johnson-Richards Tiles Ltd
George Kent Ltd
Lonrho Ltd
Lopex Ltd
Marchwiel Holdings Ltd
National Employers Mutual General Insurance Association Ltd
A Oppenheimer and Co Ltd
Samuel Osborn and Co Ltd
Plessey Co Ltd
Racal Electronics Ltd
Rank Xerox Ltd
RCF Holdings Ltd
Record Ridgway Ltd
Renold Ltd
Rentokil Ltd
Revertex Chemicals Ltd
Selection Trust Ltd
Taylor Woodrow Group Ltd
Telephone Rentals Ltd
Twinlock
Unicorn Industries Ltd
USMC International Ltd
Valor Co Ltd
W Williams and Sons (Holdings) Ltd
Thos Witter and Co Ltd

(b) Associates employing 20 or more Africans

International Combustion (Holdings) Ltd
Kleinwort Benson Ltd
Redland Ltd
Weir Group Ltd

Firms which have information available on request (but have not published): Total

(a) Subsidiaries employingor more Africans

Albright and Wilson Ltd
Associated Engineering Co Ltd
Baker Perkins Ltd
British-American Tobacco Co Ltd
British Electric Traction Co Ltd
John Brown and Co Ltd
BTR Ltd
Cavenham Foods Ltd
Chloride Group Ltd
Concrete Utilities Group Ltd
Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd
General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation Ltd
General Electric Co Ltd
Glaxo Holdings Ltd
Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance Group Ltd
Haden Carrier Ltd
L G Harris and Co Ltd
Howden Group Ltd
International Computers (Holdings) Ltd
International Distillers and Vintners Ltd
Johnson Firth Brown Ltd
Johnson Matthey and Co Ltd
Lamson Industries Ltd
Legal and General Assurance Society Ltd
Joseph Lucas (Industries) Ltd
Herbert Morris Ltd
Norwich Union Insurance Group Ltd
Portals Holdings Ltd
Prestige Group Ltd
Prudential Assurance Co Ltd
Smith and Nephew Association Co Ltd
Smiths Industries Ltd
Sun Alliance and London Insurance Ltd
Thorn Electrical Industries Ltd
Tootal Ltd
United Wire Group Ltd
Wellcome Foundation Ltd

(b) Associates employingor more Africans

C T Bowring and Co Ltd
BPB Industries Ltd
McKechnie Brothers Ltd
Mercury Securities Ltd
Royal Insurance Co Ltd
Tate & Lyle Ltd
United Dominions Trust Ltd

Firms which have published limited information: Total

(a) Subsidiaries employingor more Africans

Automotive Products Associated Ltd
Barclays Bank Ltd
Clayton Dewandre Holdings Ltd
Heywood Williams Group Ltd
Hill Samuel and Co Ltd
Hoover Ltd
Mather and Platt Ltd
Metal Closures Group Ltd
Morgan Crucible Co Ltd
Rank Hovis McDougall Ltd
Sedwick Forbes Holdings Ltd
Thomas Tilling Ltd^*

^*Has supplementary information available on request, although not stated in the Annual Report.

Thomas Locker (Holdings) Ltd
Marley Ltd
Tube Investments Ltd
Vickers Ltd

(b) Associates employingor more Africans

Acrow (Engineers) Ltd
Charter Consolidated Ltd

Firms which have declined to publish information: Total 6

(a) Subsidiaries employingor more Africans

Barton and Sons Ltd²
C & J Clark Ltd (private co)¹
Crown House Ltd²
Exchem Holdings Ltd²
Thomas French and Sons Ltd¹
Hickson and Welch (Holdings) Ltd

(¹) Are prepared to make some information available conditionally

(²) Have supplied information to the Department of Trade usually in confidence

Firms whose intentions on publication are still unclear: Total 33

(a) Subsidiaries employingor more Africans

British and Commonwealth Shipping Co Ltd
David Brown Gear Industries Ltd
Caravans International Ltd
Cohen 600 Group Ltd
Consolidated Tin Smelters Ltd
Croda International Ltd
East Rand Consolidated Ltd
B Elliott and Co Ltd
T L Eliott Oversea Ltd
Grundy (Teddington) Ltd
Guthrie Corporation Ltd
Hall Engineering Ltd
Lamont Holdings
May and Hassell Ltd
Newey Group Ltd
Pritchard Services Ltd
Rubery Owen Holdings Ltd
Stroud Riley and Co Ltd
Trafalgar House Investment Ltd
Trust Houses Forte Ltd
Vantona Ltd
George Wimpey and Co Ltd

(b) Associates employingor more Africans

Dunbee-Combex-Marx
Goode Durrant Murray Ltd
Highams Ltd
Illingworth Morris and Co Ltd
Lockwoods Foods Ltd
Manders (Holdings) Ltd
Saunders Valve Co Ltd
Steetly and Co Ltd
Union International Co. Ltd
Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co Ltd
Willis Faber and Dumas (Holdings) Ltd

Firms whose subsidiaries or associates employ less thanAfricans: Total 95

G and S Allgood Ltd
Allied Colloids Manufacturing Co Ltd
Associated Book Publishers Ltd
Associated Octel Co Ltd
Baring Brothers and Co Ltd
Barrow Hepburn Group Ltd
Bifurcated Engineering Co Ltd
Birmid Qualcast Ltd
Boosey and Hawkes Ltd
Bowthorpe Holdings Ltd
Brent Chemicals Ltd
British Airways Board
British Printing Corporation Ltd
Brown Bayley Ltd
W Canning and Co Ltd
Centrovincial Estates Ltd
Chamberlain Phipps Ltd
Charterhouse Group Ltd
Wm Collins (Publishers) Ltd
Craven Fawcett Ltd
Davy International Ltd
Dawson International Ltd
Decca Ltd
Desoutter Bros (Holdings) Ltd
Distillers Co Ltd
Doulton and Co Ltd
F Dupre Ltd
Ellerman Lines Ltd
Energy Services and Electronics Ltd
Frank Fehr and Co Ltd
Grant Barnett and Co Ltd
Greens Economiser Group Ltd
Hamilton Star Ltd
Harrisons and Crosfield Ltd
Head Wrightson and Co Ltd
W Heinemann Ltd
Alfred Herbert Ltd
Hogg Robinson and Co Ltd
Howard Machinery Ltd
Hudson's Bay and Annings Ltd
Hutchinson Ltd
Incledon and Lamberts Ltd
William Jacks and Co Ltd
Keep Bros Ltd
Harold Laycock (Bradford) Holdings Ltd
Lep Group Ltd
Lowe and Carr Ltd
LRC International Ltd
Edward Lumley and Sons Ltd
Macmillan (Holdings) Ltd
Matthews Wrightson (Holdings) Ltd
J H Minet (Holdings) Ltd
Mobbs Miller Ltd
Monotype Corporation Ltd
Marshalls (Halifax) Ltd
Negretti and Zambra Ltd
Norcros
Pearson Longman Ltd
Pegler-Hattersley Ltd
P E International Ltd
Perivale Gutermann Ltd
Phillips Electronic and Associated Industries Ltd
Phoenix Assurance Co Ltd
Powell Duffryn Ltd
Provincial Insurance Co Ltd
Randalls Group Ltd
Ransome Hoffman Pollard Ltd
Ransomes Sims and Jeffries Ltd
Thomas Robinson and Sons Ltd
Roussel Laboratories Ltd
Royal Sovereign Group Ltd
Walter Runciman and Co Ltd
George Salter and Co Ltd
Senior Engineering Group Ltd
Serck Ltd
Staflex International Ltd
Stenhouse Reed Shaw and Partners Ltd
John Tann Security Ltd
The Thomson Organisation Ltd
Towles Ltd
Toye and Co Ltd
Tozer Kemsley and Millbourn (Holdings) Ltd
TPT Ltd
Tufnol Industries Ltd
UKO International Ltd
Unigate Ltd
United City Merchants Ltd
Urwick Orr and Partners Ltd
Vernon-Carus Ltd
Walker Crossweller & Co Ltd
Andrew Weir and Co Ltd
Wellman Engineering Corporation Ltd
BS and W Whiteley Ltd
Wolf Electrical Tools (Holdings) Ltd
Yorkshire Switchgear and Engineering Co Ltd

Firms listed previously as having interests in South Africa but whose present interests have yet to be clarified: Total 8

Beckett Laycock and Watkinson Ltd
Bridgend Investment Trust Ltd
W and G Foyle Ltd
Heenan Spark Ltd
Industrial Inspection (International) Ltd
Lister and Co Ltd
A E Smith Coggins Ltd
Jonas Woodhead and Sons Ltd

Firms which have told the Department of Trade either that they have no direct interests in south Africa or that they employ no Africans; or whose interests are the responsibility of some other listed company: Total 209 119W

Aaronson Brothers Ltd
Abbott Laboratories Ltd
Aberdare Holdings Ltd
ACE Machinery (Holdings) Ltd
Adamson Alliance Ltd
Affiliated Music Publishers Ltd
Air Holdings Ltd
Air Products Ltd
Jeremiah Ambler Ltd
Ampex Electronics Ltd
Anchor Chemical Co
George Angus and Co Ltd
Atkinson Lorries (Holdings) Ltd
Baird and Tatlock Ltd
Bardolin Ltd
George Bassett Holdings Ltd
Bay Hall Trust Ltd
John Beales Associated Companies Ltd
Bear Brand Ltd
Black and Decker
Black Edgington Ltd
Blythe, Green Jourdain and Co Ltd
Bowater Corporation
Robert Bradford (Holdings) Ltd
Brightside Engineering Holdings Ltd
British Carpets Ltd
British Cellophane Ltd
British Land Co Ltd
British Steel Construction (Birmingham) Ltd
British Tourist Authority
British United Shoe Machinery Co Ltd
H P Bulmer Ltd
Bunzl Pulp and Paper Ltd
Bydand Ltd
Cable and Wireless Holdings Ltd
Cable Trust Ltd
Caledonia Investments Ltd
Carlton Industries
Carpets International Ltd
Carrier Engineering Co Ltd
CCL Systems Ltd
Cementation Co Ltd
Chalwyn Lamps Ltd
Chloride Alcad
Clarke Nicholls and Coombs Ltd
Clarkson International Tools Ltd
Clayton Son and Co Ltd
H Clegg and Co Ltd
Coast Lines Ltd
J Collett Ltd
Commonwealth Development Corporation
Commonwealth Development Finance Co Ltd
Copperad Holdings Ltd
Wm Cory and Son Ltd
Court Line Ltd
Crabtree Electrical Industries Ltd
Cussons Group Ltd
Dalgety Ltd
Davidson and Co Ltd
Dawson and Barfos Ltd
Wm Dawson and Sons
Derby and Co Ltd
Dowty Group Ltd
Duport Ltd
Dust Control Equipment Ltd
East Sussex Engineering Co Ltd
Eastwood and Holt Ltd
Ebonite Container Co Ltd
Economist Intelligence Unit
Ellams Duplicator Co Ltd
English China Clays Ltd
Evans Brothers Ltd
Leonard Fairclough Ltd
Federated Paints Ltd
Feedmobile Ltd
Denis Ferranti Meters Ltd
Finance for Industry
Firth Cleveland
A B Fleming (Holdings) Ltd
Alexander Fraser and Son Ltd
French Kier Holdings Ltd
Gala Cosmetic Group Ltd
Gandy Ltd
Geest Industries Ltd
Geigy Co Ltd
GHP Group Ltd
Globe Investment Trust Ltd
Goblin BVC Ltd
Gourock Ropework Co Ltd
N Greening and Sons
Hall-Thermotank Ltd
Hallam Sleigh and Cheston Ltd
James Halstead Holdings Ltd
L Hammond and Co (Holdings) Ltd
Hampson Industries Ltd
Hartle Machinery Co Ltd
Quinton Hazell (Holdings) Ltd
A and S Henry and Co Ltd
Arthur Hentzen and Co Ltd
Hield Brothers Ltd
Hill and Delamain
H R Holfeld (Belfast) Ltd
Hopkinsons Holdings Ltd
Alex Howden (Holdings) Ltd
Howe Richardson Scale Co Ltd
Robert Hudson Ltd
Ingersoll-Rand Co Ltd
Insulation Equipments Ltd
Isaac Jackson Holdings Ltd
Jessel Securities Ltd
Jeyes Products Ltd
Johnson and Philips Ltd
Gordon Johnson-Stephens (Holdings) Ltd
Kalamazoo Ltd
Kangol Ltd
W H G Kingston Ltd
Laird Group
Landel Trust Ltd
Laurence, Scott and Electromotors Ltd
Lloyds and Scottish Ltd
London Merchant Securities
Manbre and Garton Ltd
Manifold Transport Services Ltd
Marconi International Marine Co Ltd
Marks and Spencer Ltd
Melbray Group Ltd
Metal Traders Strauss Ltd
Midland Electric Manufacturing Co Ltd
Mills and Allen Ltd
Molins Ltd
Montagu Trust Ltd
Motor Rail Ltd
Minerva Fire Dector Ltd
Mullards Radio Valve Co Ltd
Nairn International (Holdings) Ltd
Isaac Naylor and Sons Ltd
Newton Chambers Ltd
James North and Sons Ltd
Norvic Shoe Co Ltd
Ofrex Group Ltd
Oldham International Ltd
Pancreol Ltd
Parkinson Cowan Ltd
Patons and Baldwins Ltd
Pearl Assurance Co Ltd
Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Co Ltd
Pergamon Press Ltd
Perkins Engines Ltd
Permali Ltd
Permutit Co Ltd
G D Peters and Co Ltd
Photo-Me International Ltd
Pilkington Tiles Ltd
Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd
F Pratt Engineering Ltd
Prodorite Ltd
Rabone Chesterman Ltd
Reeves and Sons Ltd
Rexnord Nordberg Machinery Ltd
Rockweld Ltd
Rothmans Ltd
Rotork Ltd
Ruberoid Ltd
Sadia Water Heaters Ltd
Fred Sage and Co Ltd
Sagit Trust Ltd
A Sanderson and Sons Ltd
Scholefield Goodman and Sons Ltd
Schreiber Wood Industries Ltd
Scottish Cables Ltd
Sears Holdings Ltd
Seddon Diesel Vehicles Ltd
Sempah Holdings Ltd
Sheffield Twist Drill & Steel Co Ltd
Siebe Gorman Ltd
Sirdar Ltd
Smith and Wellstood Ltd
Somic Ltd
Sound Attenuators Ltd
South Mills (Textiles) Ltd
Spear and Jackson Ltd
Steel Group
Stein Atkinson Stordy Ltd
Steinberg and Sons Ltd
Storey Brothers and Co Ltd
Stothert and Pitt Ltd
Bernard Sunley Investment Trust
Tecalemit Ltd
Telehoist Ltd
Thurston and Co Ltd
Town and City Properties Ltd
Transport Development Group Ltd
United Transport Overseas Ltd
Vapormatic Ltd
Allen West and Co Ltd
Westbourne Group
Whessoe Ltd
F Whitley and Co Ltd
Wiggins Teape Ltd
J Wilkes Ltd
Willows Francis Ltd
Wilmot Breedon (Holdings) Ltd
Woodhall-Duckham Group Ltd
A C Wood and Sons Ltd
Wood Hall Trust Ltd
Woolcombers (Holdings) Ltd
R Wolff and Co Ltd
Yarrow and Co Ltd
A C Young and Co Ltd