HC Deb 19 November 1973 vol 864 cc330-1W
Mr. Rose

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many official trade union nominees there are in total available and willing to sit on industrial tribunals.

Mr. Maurice Macmillan

There are no official trade union nominees but the Industrial Tribunals Panel includes a number of persons with trade union experience. I very much regret that the TUC does not co-operate in the selection of tribunal members. I hope it will reconsider this policy, in view of the extensive use of them made by individual union members.