HC Deb 25 July 1969 vol 787 cc515-6W
Mr. Marten

asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity if her Department will consider initiating, in consultation with the Trades Union Congress, a planned programme of exchanges between younger trade unionists in Great Britain and their counterparts in the member states of the European Free Trade Association.

Mr. Fernyhough

I would refer the hon. Member to the replies given to my hon. Friends the Members for Leicester, North-East (Mr. Bradley) on 8th and 21st July and Bradford, West (Mr. Haseldine) on 10th July. The arrangements for exchanges described in those replies apply, in general, to exchanges between this country and the other Member States of the European Free Trade Association. I think they are adequate for the purpose.—[Vol. 786, c. 237–8; Vol. 787, c. 275–6; Vol. 786, c. 287–8.]