§ Mr. Dempseyasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he has studied the resolution from the Sanitary Inspectors' Association of Scotland concerning a shortage of sanitary inspectors; what reply he has made; and what steps he now intends to take to remedy the shortage.
§ Mr. NobleThe Association represented that there was a shortage of sanitary inspectors in Scotland owing mainly to the difference in salary scales between Scotland and England and Wales. I told the Association in reply that the determination of salary scales for sanitary inspectors was a responsibility of the National Joint Industrial Councils for Local Authority Services (Scotland) in which it would not be proper for me to intervene. I understand that revised scales were introduced in March with the object of recruiting and retaining staff of adequate quality.