HC Deb 17 July 1990 vol 176 cc529-30W
Mr. Allen

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list those unions which have voted on the establishment of a new political fund since 1984 with the full result in each case.

1989 Mr. Nicholls

Information on the establishment of political funds is contained in the annual reports of the independent certification officer for trade unions and employers' associations. Copies of the reports are available from the Library. The table lists those unions which were qualified to operate political funds for the first time between January 1984 and the end of December 1989 —the latest date for which that information is available. The full results of relevant ballots are provided in confidence to the certification officer by the unions concerned.

Union having political fund rules approved.

  • Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers and Kindred Trades.

  • Broadcasting and Entertainment Trades Alliance.
  • Communication Managers Association.
  • Inland Revenue Staff Federation.
  • Clerical Group of National Communications Union (Engineering and Clerical Groups).1
  • National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers.

  • Association of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Taxes2.
  • Civil and Public Services Association.
  • Civil Service Union.
  • National Union of Lock and Metalworkers.
  • Society of Civil and Public Servants.

  • Educational Institute of Scotland.
  • Health Visitors Association.
  • Institution of Professional Civil Servants.
  • National and Local Government Officers Association.
  • National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education.
  • National Union of Insurance Workers.
  • Retained Firefighters Union.
  • Union of Democratic Mineworkers.

  • Association of Agricultural Education Staffs.
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  • National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers.
  • Association of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Taxes3.

1The National Communications Union (Engineering and Clerical Groups), which already had approved political fund rules in relation to its Engineering group, had further rules approved in 1986 for its Clerical group.

2The Association of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Taxes, which had political fund rules approved in 1987, ceased to exist with effect from 1 January 1989 when it transferred its engagements to the Association of First Division Civil Servants.

3In 1989, a body was created within the Association of First Division Civil Servants called the Association of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Taxes which became listed in its own right as a trade union and which voted to adopt a political fund.

Note.—The information set out above is obtained from the Annual Reports of the certification officer for trade unions and employers' associations.