§ Ms. Clare Shortasked the Paymaster General if he will publish for each year from 1979 to 1984 the number of scheduled inspections of establishments covered by wages councils covered by the Clothing Manufacturing Wages Council and the councils it replaced and covered by the
*1979 *1980 *1981 1982 1983 1984 Clothing Manufacturing Wages Council (a) Scheduled inspections which did not take place — — — 186 218 441 (b) (a) as a percentage of scheduled inspections which did take place — — — 28 per cent. 26 per cent. 37 per cent. Retail Bespoke Tailoring Wages Council (a) Scheduled inspections which did not take place — — — 16 47 77 (b) (a) as a percentage of scheduled inspections which did take place — — — 46 per cent. 85 per cent. 96 per cent. * Information relating to scheduled inspections which did not take place was not collected prior to 1982.