HC Deb 21 July 1980 vol 989 cc47-8W
Mr. Proctor

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the 39 affiliated unions to the Trades Union Congress which receive grants listed in his answer, Official Report 17 July.

Dr. Boyson

In 1979–80 the following 39 affiliated trade unions claimed through the TUC grants totalling £725,000 towards eligible expenditure on the provision either of residential courses or short courses in agreed priority areas, or both:

  • Transport and General Workers Union
  • Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (Engineering and Foundry Sections)
  • Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section)
  • National Union of General and Municipal Workers
  • National and Local Government Officers Association
  • National Union of Public Employees
  • Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs
  • Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
  • Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union
  • Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians
  • National Union of Teachers
  • National Union of Mineworkers
  • Civil and Public Services Association
  • Confederation of Health Service Employees
  • National Union of Railwaymen
  • Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff
  • Banking, Insurance and Finance Union
  • Post Office Engineering Union
  • National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers
  • Society of Civil and Public Servants
  • Institution of Professional Civil Servants
  • National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers
  • Inland Revenue Staff Federation
  • National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education
  • Civil Service Union
  • National Association of School Masters and Union of Women Teachers
  • Engineers and Managers Association
  • Society of Post Office Executives
  • Tobacco Workers Union
  • Post Office Management Staffs Association
  • Union of Post Office Workers (now known as Union of Communication Workers)
  • National Graphical Association
  • Iron and Steel Trades Confederation
  • National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Copper Smith, and Heating and Domestic Engineers
  • Transport Salaried Staffs Association
  • National Union of Seamen
  • Fire Brigades Union
  • Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
  • Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers, Engravers and Process Workers