§ Mr. Chopeasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether it is open to groups of workers in the National Health Service to submit tenders under Health circular HC (83) 18 on any basis other than Whitley council terms.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkePresent agreements to which management and trades unions are parties mean that in-house tenders must be based on Whitley council terms. However, with the agreement of staff interests, the tenders could provide for the revision of an existing incentive bonus scheme. A group of NHS workers could tender on some other basis as a co-operative, but if successful they would then cease to be NHS employees.