§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Lord President of the Council if, in view of the fact that there are only 10 hon. Members who have service longer than their right of pension claim and that the cost of allowing them full pension rights in respect of all their years of service is estimated to be £110,000, he will introduce proposals to amend the provisions relating to hon. Members' pensions so as to provide that in all cases the full length of service counts for pension purposes.
§ Mr. BiffenI have no plans to do so.
Number of hours by workers* per tonne of crude steel produced 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 Belgium 6.0 6.8 6.4 6.2 5.2 4.9 5.0 4.7 Denmark n.a. 6.0 4.8 4.8 3.7 4.0 4.2 4.6 France 7.4 8.4 7.6 7.2 6.4 5.7 5.2 4.9 Italy 5.4 5.4 5.5 5.4 5.2 5.2 4.9 4.9 Luxembourg 5.5 6.6 6.3 6.1 4.8 4.5 4.4 4.6 Netherlands n.a. 6.1 5.9 5.8 5.1 4.8 5.0 4.4 United Kingdom 11.6 12.4 11.0 11.9 10.9 10.0 ‡17.7 7.7 West Germany 5.9 6.6 6.3 6.5 5.9 5.4 5.4 5.3 Japan† 4.4 4.7 ||4.3 4.4 4.3 3.7 3.6 ||3.9 United States of America† 6.8 7.1 ||6.7 6.8 6.4 6.5 6.6 ||6.1 Information for Ireland, Greece and Canada is not readily available, if at all. Notes: * Excludes salaried staff, but includes workers in auxilliary departments and services. † Figures for EC countries are derived from Eurostat. Those for Japan and United States of America are based on OECD data and may not be exactly comparable with EC figures. ‡ Affected by the steel strike. ৷ Estimated.