§ 15. Sir A. Meyerasked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will issue a White Paper giving details of the efforts which 12W he made to persuade coal miners to accept the National Coal Board's productivity bonus scheme.
§ Mr. BennThe Coal Industry Tripartite Group, of which I am Chairman, consisting of representatives of the Government the coal mining unions and the National Coal Board, reiterated in 1976 the need for a sound and effective incentive scheme.
The Board's recent proposal, which was supported by a majority of the National Executive Committee of the NUM, represented one way of meeting this need, and on 25th October last I issued a statement about it. I will arrange to have a copy of this statement printed in the Official Report.