Supreme Quilting, Smethwick

HC Deb 25 November 1982 vol 32 cc571-2W

Mr. Faulds

asked the Secretary of State for Employment whether, since the work force of Supreme Quilting, Smethwick has been declared redundant, the local wages inspectorate will now conduct an investigation of the wages paid by the directors of that company in that factory over the last year.

Mr. Alison

There is a trade dispute at this establishment. It is not the practice of the Wages Inspectorate to undertake inspection action while a trade dispute exists.

Mr. Faulds

asked the Secretary of State for Employment on what date an official or officials of the local wages inspectorate last visited the factory of Supreme Quilting in Smethwick; and what their findings were.

Mr. Alison

The pay records of Supreme Quilting Ltd. have not been inspected as the Wages Inspectorate had no record of the company until recently. P. S. Raindi Ltd., which shares premises with Supreme Quilting Ltd. in Smethwick, was inspected on 27 May 1982. Details of the findings of such investigations are not, however, disclosed by the inspectorate except to the employer and the workers concerned.