§ Mr. Willeyasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will announce further appointments to the Organising Committee for British Shipbuilders.
§ Mr. VarleyI have appointed Mr. K. J. Griffin to be a Deputy Chairman of the Organising Committee for and a Deputy Chairman Designate of British Shipbuilders. Mr. Griffin who was formerly a full-time official of the EETU and District Secretary of the CSEU in South Wales was seconded from his union to the Department of Trade and Industry in 1971 and is now an industrial adviser in the Department of Industry.
It is my intention to appoint to the Organising Committees for both British Aerospace and British Shipbuilders further members who are now active in the trade union movement. I have asked the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions to put forward names for my consideration.