HC Deb 19 November 1979 vol 974 cc26-7W
Mrs. Renée Short

asked the Secretary of State for Industry when he expects to receive the report on the management of the Post Office Corporation by the industrial relations unit of Warwick university; and whether the report will be published in full.

Mr. Kaufman

asked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will place in the Library a copy of the Warwick university report on the industrial democracy experiment in the Post Office.

Mr. Michael Marshall

The industrial relations unit of Warwick university was invited by the Post Office and the Council of Post Office Unions to monitor and evaluate their agreed two-year experiment in industrial democracy in the Post Office. The unit's report is confidential to the parties to that agreement. It is for them, and not my right hon. Friend, to decide whether the unit's report should be published.