§ Mr. Rookerasked 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. MayhewThe 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:
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% 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 409W
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