§ Mr. Robert Atkinsasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement about the industrial dispute at the Royal ordnance factory, Bishopston, Glasgow, and the effects on the British defence industry of the consequential delays in the supply of propellants.
§ Mr. HayhoeAs a result of the refusal of non-industrial staff at ROF Bishopston to implement a new incentive scheme for some industrial workers 43 non-industrial staff have been temporarily relieved from duty without pay and 1,600 industrial workers laid off with pay.
Although negotiations are continuing, production at the factory has ceased; but the effects of the consequential delays in the supply of propellants on the British defence industry have so far been minimised by using stockholdings and purchases from abroad.