HC Deb 19 March 1963 vol 674 cc45-6W
Miss Vickers

asked the Civil Lord of the Admiralty, in view of the fact that the average wage in the South-West of England is 25s. 6d. below the national average, and that the wage of the average worker in Her Majesty's Dockyard, Devonport, is 25s. below that of workers in private yards in Great Britain, what action is being taken to give the unskilled worker a living wage.

Mr. C. Ian Orr-Ewing

I would refer my hon. Friend to the statement I made concerning negotiations in progress on dockyard wages during the course of the recent debate on the Navy Estimates. It will be remembered that not long ago we introduced for the lowest paid workers a supplementary "time workers' allowance" of 6s. per week.