HC Deb 17 December 1979 vol 976 cc53-5W

Mr. Kaufman asked the Secretary of State for Industry if, consequent to his

'000 tonnes 1979 Jan-Sept
Bulgaria 4
Czechoslovakia 31
East Germany 22
Hungary 16
Poland 42
Romania 8
USSR 11
North Africa 4
Republic of South Africa 89
Canada 17
USA 28
Brazil 59
Japan 119
South Korea 20
Australia 8
Other countries 3
Total 2,781

Mr. Wigley

asked the Secretary of State for Industry what was the crude steel production of each member country of the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development during each year since 1975.

Mr. Michael Marshall

The information is as follows:

reply to the right hon. Member for Manchester, Ardwick, Official Report, 12 December, column 1310, he will now arrange to present a Government report to Parliament on the Post Office industrial democracy experiment.

Sir Keith Joseph

The right hon. Member for Manchester, Ardwick (Mr. Kaufman) himself suggestedPerhaps the most appropriate way to handle this would be for the Chairman of the Post Office to provide my right hon. Friend with a report on the operation of the experiment, which would be made available to Parliament.—[Official Report, 27 June 1977; Vol. 934, c. 77.]

I concur with that approach. The chairman wrote to me on 15 November 1979 enclosing copies of the minutes recording the board's discussions on 4 September and 6 November. These recorded that there was no consensus of view about the future of the experiment. As I promised the House, I have placed copies of those documents, as finally agreed, in the Library of the House. I have also placed in the Library, with the consent of the Post Office and the Council of Post Office Unions, a copy of the Warwick University report which was commissioned by those parties.

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