§ Mr. Alexander W. Lyonasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity, if she will make a statement about the reports of the National Board for Prices and Incomes on the pay and conditions in the building and civil engineering industry.
§ Mr. FernyhoughThe Reports raise a number of major issues which those concerned in the industry will need to consider. The Government will in due course seek to have discussions with them on these issues. Meanwhile the Board has ruled that the penny cost of-living payment of March, 1968 is to be reckoned for the purpose of calculating186W the ceiling in the White Paper. In view of the agreed basis on which the interim agreements were implemented pending the Board's Reports, the Government look to the unions to take steps to ensure that these interim agreements are modified to bring them within the ceiling through The Factory Inspectorate issues a the machinery of the industries' joint leaflet on fire drills and I am sending a negotiating bodies.