§ 21. Mr Crouchasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the major pay settlements made during the 65W past six months and notified to his department in which the average rate of increase has not exceeded eight per cent.
§ Mr. Maurice Macmillan:The list is given below. In addition to the 22 settle-
MAJOR SETTLEMENTS AT AN ANNUAL RATE OF APPROXIMATELY EIGHT PER CENT OR LESS ONEARNINGS NOTIFIED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT SINCE 1ST NOVEMBER, 1971(Standard Industrial Classification Order) Agreement Effective Date Order I—Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing Agriculture, England and Wales … … … … … 17th January, 1972 Order VI—Metal Manufacture British Steel Corporation Clerical Workers … … … … 1st January, 1972 Order XIII—Textiles Hosiery and Knitwear Trades NJIC … … … … … 3rd January, 1972 (1st stage) 3rd July, 1972 (2nd stage) Order XVII—Timber, Furniture etc. Furniture trade NJIC … … … … … … … 1st January, 1972 Order XVIII—Paper, Printing and Publishing Newspaper Printing, London (Production workers) … … … 1st July, 1971 Order XXI—Gas, Electricity and Water Gas Supply NJIC—general workers … … … … … 18th January, 1972 Electricity Supply NJIC—general workers … … … … 20th September, 1971 Electricity Supply, administrative and clerical workers … … 1st February, 1972 Water Supply, manual workers (England and Wales) … … … 5th December, 1971 Order XXII—Transport and Communication Company-owned' Buses, platform staff … … … … 3rd March, 1972 Municipal Road Transport Undertakings (platform staff) … … 1st January, 1972 Road Haulage Wages Council … … … … … … 24th May, 1972 London Transport, platform staff … … … … … 8th April, 1972 Order XXV—Professional and Scientific Services National Health Service: Doctors and Dentists … … … … … … … 1st April, 1971 Administrative and Clerical … … … … … … 1st April, 1972 Professions Supplementary to Medicine … … … … 1st April, 1972 Nurses and Midwives … … … … … … … 1st April, 1971 University Teachers (England and Wales) … … … … 1st October, 1971 United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, manual workers … 1st October, 1971 Teachers in Establishments of Further Education, Farm Institutes and Colleges of Education … … … … … … 1st April, 1972 Order XXVII—Public Administration and Defence Non-industrial Civil Service, administration group and clerical … 1st January, 1972 Police Service … … … … … … … … 1st September, 1971 NJIC … National Joint Industrial Council.