HC Deb 18 December 1957 vol 580 c64W
41. Mr. Iremonger

asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, in view of the inflationary effect, in certain circumstances, of wage increases in the nationalised transport industry, if he will consider the desirability of introducing legislation to make it ultra vires for the British Transport Commission to make wage increases which are not matched by national productivity and to assign a specific function to the Council on Prices, Productivity, and Incomes in assisting the Commission to shape its wages policy in the national interest.

Mr. Watkinson

I have nothing to add to the Written Answer which the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power made to a similar question by my hon. Friend on 25th November.