§ Mr. Woodallasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether pay increases to reflect significantly new work or new responsibility such as work on new and different machinery should be costed and contained within the overall 5 per cent. limit that applies from 1st August 1978.
§ Mr. Harold Walker,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 31st July 1978], gave the following information:
This will need to be determined in the light of paragraph 12 of Cmnd. 7293 and other relevant provisions.
§ Mr. Woodallasked the Secretary of State for Employment which of the small number of cases covered by paragraph 15 of the White Paper "Winning the Battle Against Inflation" for whom exceptional increases were agreed will be
398Wsubstantial components of more than one borough and have been shown more than once. For this reason the figures for the boroughs cannot be added up to give a total for the whole of Greater London.
entitled to receive phase 4 5 per cent. increase in addition to those exceptional increases.
§ Mr. Harold Walker,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 31st July 1978], gave the following information:
I cannot forecast the cases which may arise within the relevant provision of the White Paper.