HC Deb 11 July 1972 vol 840 c306W
Mr. Ashton

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will make an investigation into the pay and hours of work of wardens employed by the National Trust in Clumber Park, Worksop, seven-eighths of whose pay is met by the Countryside Commission; whether he will pay them overtime rates and fix a standard hourly working week; and, in view of the fact that their last pay award was in 1970, whether he will order the 1973 review to be brought forward.

Mr. Graham Page

No. Although the cost of the warden service at Clumber Park is grant-aided at the rate of 75 per cent. under the Countryside Act, 1968, the conditions of service of the wardens are the responsibility of the management committee, not of my right hon. Friend or the Countryside Commission.