§ Mr. Wallasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will seek to amend the law to strengthen the protection which may be offered by industrial tribunals to persons harassed by their former unions when they wish to join another union recognised by their management, in the light of the action taken by the National Union of Journalists against Mr. Peter Brown to seek to prevent him from joining the Institute of Journalists.
§ Mr. MayhewThe Government's working paper on proposed changes in the law on the closed shop contains a number of proposals which may be of assistance to individuals in circumstances of this kind. Copies of the working paper, on which consultations are now taking place, were deposited in the Library on 9 July.