HC Deb 30 October 1970 vol 805 c214W
Mr. Bishop

asked the Minister 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. Kirk

We continue to adopt a critical and discriminating attitude to the employment of self-employed designers and technicians and discourage the practice in those cases where it is not properly justified.