HC Deb 14 November 1977 vol 939 cc25-6W
Mr. Fernyhough

asked the Secretary of State for Employment, in view of the findings in the "Wages of Uncertainty", published in August by the Low Pay Unit, what steps he intends to take to overcome the serious problems outlined.

Mr. John Grant

I am examining the possibility of producing guides to wages orders and, in conjunction with certain wages councils, experimenting with simplification of the orders. A publicity campaign to make the work of the councils and wages inspectors more objections are being made by workers in industry generally and the motor car, steel, coal mining, Civil Service, police, electricity and power and fire services in particular.

Mr. Harold Walker

No. I think that the aims of the pay policy and the difficulties to which it inevitably gives rise are widely appreciated both within the trade union movement and by the public at large.