§ Mr. Gryllsasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the basis for the estimate of 50,000 agency workers, including 30,000 one-man companies who are stated in the public expenditure White Paper to be escaping the provision of section 38 of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1975; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Peter ReesThe estimate to which my hon. Friend refers, which was quoted in the Comptroller and Auditor428W General's report on the—Appropriation Accounts 1979–80—Volume 3, paragraph 159—was derived from information supplied to the Inland Revenue from within the employment agency field.