HC Deb 18 June 1979 vol 968 cc407-9W
Mr. Rooker

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list those trade unions which maintain political funds and show the proportion of members of each paying into the fund for the latest year for which figures are available.

Mr. Mayhew

The following information as to the percentage of members contributing to the fund of each union having a political fund at 31 December 1978 has been supplied to me by the certification officer:

%
Amalgamated Association of Beamers Twisters and Drawers (Hand and Machine) Nil
Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers Shipwrights Blacksmiths and Structural Workers 63
Amalgamated Society of Journeymen Felt Hatters and Allied Workers 83
Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers and Kindred Trades 99
Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union 88
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers Nil
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (Constructional Section) 75
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (Engineering Section) 75
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (Foundry Section) 71
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (Technical Administrative and Supervisory Section) 47
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen 95
Association of Cinematograph Television and Allied Technicians 9
Association of Operative Cotton Spinners of Haslingden and Surrounding Neighbourhood 100
Association of Patternmakers and Allied Craftsmen 70
Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff 74
Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs 33
Bakers Food and Allied Workers' Union 68
Ceramic and Allied Trades Union 88
Cloth Pressers' Society Nil
Confederation of Health Service Employees 91
Electrical Electronic Telecommunication and Plumbing Union 24
Fire Brigades Union 63
Furniture Timber and Allied Trades Union 61
General Union of Associations of Loom Overlookers 100
Huddersfield and District Healders' and Twisters' Trade and Friendly Society 100
Iron and Steel Trades' Confederation 86
Liverpool Victoria Section of the National Union of Insurance Workers 10
Musicians Union 84
National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers 97
National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers (Durham Area) 100
National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers (Northumberland Area) 99
National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers (Yorkshire Area) 99
National Association of Theatrical Television and Kine Employees 55
National League of the Blind and Disabled 36
National Graphical Association 45
National Society of Metal Mechanics 81
National Society of Operative Printers Graphical and Media Personnel 90
National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers 99
National Union of Blast Furnacemen, Ore Miners, Coke Workers and Kindred Trades 75
National Union of Co-operative Insurance Society Employees 90
National Union of Domestic Appliance and General Metal Workers 56
National Union of Dyers, Bleachers and Textile Worker 100
National Union of General and Municipal Workers 92
National Union of Gold Silver and Allied Trades 79
National Union of Insurance Workers Prudential Section 71
National Union of Mineworkers 68
National Union of Mineworkers (Durham Area) 40
National Union of Mineworkers (Kent Area) 100
National Union of Mineworkers (Leicester Area) 61
National Union of Mineworkers (Northumberland Area) 43
National Union of Public Employees 98
National Union of Railwaymen 95
National Union of Scalemakers 12
National Union of Seamen 52
National Union of Sheet Metal Workers Coppersmiths and Heating and Domestic Engineers 81
National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers 88
National Union of the Footwear, Leather and Allied Trades 90
National Woolsorters' Society Nil
Post Office Engineering Union 72
Power Loom Carpet Weavers and Textile Workers Association 97
Preston & District Tape sizers Association 72
Rossendale Union of Boot, Shoe and Slipper Operatives 87
Society of Graphical and Allied Trades 1975 25
Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers, Engravers and Process Workers 35
Society of Shuttlemakers 13
Tobacco Workers Union 47
Transport and General Workers Union 97
Transport Salaried Staffs' Association 85
Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians 65
Union of Post Office Workers. 95
Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers 91
Yorkshire Society of Textile Craftsmen 59
Scotland National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers (Scottish Area) 99
Scottish Carpet Workers Union Nil
Union of Jute Flax and Kindred Textile Operatives 100