§ Sir R. Taskerasked the Home Secretary whether he will consider the desirability of promoting legislation to amend the Trade Union Act of 1927 so as to make it unlawful for a strike to be declared by the employés of a public authority unless and until a ballot has been taken under the supervision of an independent returning officer to be appointed by Parliament, whose duty it will be to satisfy himself that every such worker has a fair opportunity of voting under statutory safeguards, that the ballot is held in accordance with the provisions, mutatis mutandis, of the Ballot Act, 1872, and that a majority of the workers involved is in favour of the proposed strike?
§ The Attorney-GeneralI have been asked to reply. No legislation for the amendment of the Trade Union Acts is at present contemplated, but my hon. Friend's proposals will be borne in mind.