§ Mr. Monroasked the Minister of Labour if the figures quoted on pages 307–309 of the Ministry of Labour Gazette for June 1966 giving regional wage comparisons for the construction industry. other than constructional engineering, included local authority direct labour departments; and if he will publish separate statistics covering these departments.
§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsThe figures are derived from a sample enquiry which includes direct labour departments only of those local authorities which can separately identify their construction departments. The number of such direct labour departments included is too small to enable reliable averages to be computed.