§ Mr. Merlyn Reesasked the Minister for the Civil Service what steps have been taken to implement Report No. 146 of the National Board for Prices and Incomes on the pay and conditions of industrial civil servants; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. David HowellAll the steps recommended to be taken at the 1970 pay negotiations were taken, and considerable progress has also been made on the longer-term recommendations, in particular on productivity agreements and other arrangements for relating pay more closely to performance, which now cover over half of the industrial civil service.