HC Deb 03 May 1974 vol 872 c255W
Mr. Robert Taylor

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give a definition of the term "lump" as used in his Budget speech.

Mr. Dell

This is not a precise term. But my right hon. Friend used it in the general sense in which it is in common use nowadays, meaning those men working in the construction industry who are not employees but offer their own labour, and only their own labour, on a subcontract basis, either singly or in a gang.