§ Mr. John Grantasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the work on references and cases still to be completed by the Standing Commission on pay comparability; and when he expects to begin the review of the Commission's position.
§ Mr. Jim Lester[pursuant to his reply, 26 November 1979]: Current references 582W to the Standing Commission are as follows: nurses and midwives; professions supplementary to medicine; university technicians; ambulance officers; municipal airport manual workers; British Waterways Board salaried staffs; primary and secondary school and further education teachers; some groups of local authority craftsmen; new towns staff; justices' clerks' assistants—outside inner London; and Scottish local authority chief officials. The Government continue to keep the Commission's work under review and have recently made further references, included in this list.