§ Mr. Maurice Macmillanasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the settlements reached by each nationalised industry for which his is the sponsoring Department, the size of each settlement, and the date upon which it came into operation, and, if any settlements were over 10 per cent., the criteria he adopted for judging whether they were acceptable and within the Government's guidelines as defined in the White Paper "The Attack upon Inflation after 31st July 1977", the size of any productivity element within each agreement, and the size of any increase in productivity achieved so far by groups of workers covered by such productivity elements.
Corporation Original number of employees (date) Employees at 31st December 1977 British Railways Board … … 642,000* (1st January 1948) 240,073 British Transport Docks Board … 12,287 (1st January 1963) 11,544 National Bus Company … … 65,600 (1st January 1969) 65,118 National Freight Corporation … 80,344 (1st January 1969) 40,148 * 26,000 staff were transferred from British Railways to the National Freight Corporation when it was set up on 1st January 1969.