National and Local Wage Bargains

HC Deb 17 January 1967 vol 739 cc38-9W

Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd

asked the First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs whether a reference to the National Board for Prices and Incomes of a case involving the relationship between national and local wage bargains will be made before the present standstill period ends.

Mr. Frederick Lee

The National Board for Prices and Incomes has already reported on three such cases—printing, road haulage and busmen—and further cases will be referred as appropriate. The hon. Member may be referring to the suggestion of the Board in their Report on Productivity and Pay During the Period of Severe Restraint (Cmnd. 3167) that they be given a reference which enables them to examine systems of payment by results in depth before the end of the period of severe restraint. My right hon. Friends the First Secretary and the Minister of Labour are now considering this.