HL Deb 22 July 1985 vol 466 c1090WA
Lord Vinson

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether, in view of the apparent inconsistencies in the Agricultural Wages Board's latest awards, they consider that the board should either be abolished or required to confine itself to recommendations on adult wages.

Lord Belstead

My right honourable friend the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food made it clear in another place on 17th June that Agriculture Ministers currently had no plans to review the operation of the Agricultural Wages Board. The board's existing operations, including the requirement that the wage determinations should cover all workers in agriculture, are governed by ILO Convention No. 99, which the Government decided in 1984 not to denounce in respect of the period to 1994.