§ Mr. D. E. Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Employment what was the total expenditure and per capita expenditure per person of working age on regional employment premium in (a) Great Britain (b) Scotland (c) Wales and (d) the English regions in each year since 1970.
§ Mr. John FraserTotal expenditure on REP for each development area since 1970 andper capita expenditure per employee in employment is given in the attached table. The number of employees in employment analysed by development areas is not yet available for 1974.
unable to add anything further to the Government's existing undertaking that improvements in occupational pensions schemes, which do no more than meet the minimum requirements for contracting out under the Social Security Pensions Act 1975, may be implemented from any date from 31st July next without counting against whatever pay policy may then apply.