HC Deb 23 March 1979 vol 964 cc300-1W
Mr. Holland

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the full-time occupations and other official appointments held by the chairman and members of the Standing Commission on pay comparability.

Mr. Harold Walker

The full-time occupations of the chairman and members of the Standing Commission on pay comparability and their current official appointments are as followsProfessor Hugh Clegg (Chairman)—Professor of industrial relations at Warwick University. Member of the council of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service. Mr. Peter Gibson: former director of personnel and administration at BP Oil Limited. Professor Joan Mitchell: Professor of political economy at the University of Nottingham. Member of the committee to review the functioning of financial institutions and of the East Midlands economic planning council. Sir William Ryland CB: former chairman of the Post Office Corporation. Mr. C. Harry Urwin: Deputy General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, member of the Manpower Services Commission; the council of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service; the National Freight Corporation; the Industrial Development Advisory Board; the National Enterprise Board; the Advisory Committees on Dangerous and Toxic Substances; the Energy Commission; the Post Offict Arbitration Tribunal; and the Industrial Tribunals Panel. Sir Leslie Williams, CBE: Former General Secretary of what is now the Society of Civil and Public Servants and former Secretary-General of the Staff Side of the Civil Service Whitley Council. Member of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority; and the Armed Forces Pay Review Body. Chairman of the board of governors of the National Hospitals for Nervous diseases.