§ Mr. Henderson Stewartasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the reason for the breakdown in negotiations between the mental nurses' panel and the employers' panel; and, in view of the substantial nature of the State grant for increased salaries to mental nurses, what steps he is taking to secure agreement between the two sides.
Mr. JohnstonI am informed by the Chairman of the Mental Nurses' Sub-Committee that at the last meeting of the Sub-Committee deadlock was reached on the question of the period over which the increments in a suggested scale of salaries for ward sisters should be spread. I understand that the Sub-Committee had not fully considered the details of the scales of salaries for other grades of nurses in mental hospitals when this deadlock
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