§ 71. Sir C. Osborneasked the Minister of Social Security, in view of the fact that the seven-week-old unofficial dock strike is mainly responsible for the £107 million trade deficit for October, and for the continued weakness of sterling, if she will introduce emergency legislation to prevent unofficial strikers and their families from receiving welfare payments from the State their unofficial action is harming.
§ Mrs. HartI would refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply which I gave him on 27th November. I do not think we can contemplate allowing the wives and children of unofficial strikers to suffer severe hardship.—[Vol. 755, c.4.]