§ Mr. Rentonasked the Secretary of State for Employment when he proposes to extend the secret postal ballot scheme to cover votes on wage offers as proposed in the consultative document on industrial relations issued on 23 November 1981.
§ Mr. WaddingtonMy right hon. Friend intends that a revised scheme should come into operation on 1 September. A draft order will be laid on 14 June to add to the list of purposes set out in section 1(3) of the Employment Act 1980. We shall also be placing in the Library of the House a draft of the regulations which my right hon. Friend would subsequently propose to make in order to amend the current scheme.