HC Deb 14 February 1968 vol 758 cc342-3W
53. Mr. Bishop

asked the Secretary of State for Defence whether he will take steps to discourage contractors for the supply of defence equipment for his Department from employing self-employed designers and technicians wherever possible, in view of the fact that those not genuinely self-employed avoid much of the legislation to which other workers are subject.

Mr. Mason:

My Department already adopts a critical and discriminating attitude to employing self-employed designers and technicians and discourages the practice in those cases where it is not properly justified.