§ Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many factory inspectors have been in post for each year since 1950; and for each of these years what has been the average ratio per inspector to the total number of premises for the supervision of which the Factory Inspectorate is responsible.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithThere is considerable variation in the work of individual inspectors and in the number of premises assigned to any one inspector.
Following is the information:
Hours of work, April 1973" published earlier this month. It is estimated that about three in every four full-time manual workers covered by collective agreements and statutory wages regulation orders now have basic holiday entitlements of three weeks or more, in addition to public holidays. I regret that systematic information relating to current holiday entitlements of non-manual workers is not available.