§ Mr. Ernie Rossasked the Secretary of State for Employment what has been the number of wages inspectors employed in the United Kingdom and Scotland in each of the past two years; and if he plans to increase or decrease the number.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThe numbers of wages inspectors employed in Great Britain were 163 at September 1979 and 152 at September 1980. The corresponding figures for Scotland were 15 at both of those dates. It is planned to reduce the number of inspectors further to a level appropriate to the current work programme of the inspectorate.