§ Ms. Clare Shortasked the Paymaster General if he will publish for each year from 1979 to 1985 the number of establishments where the records of home workers were examined by wages inspectors, the number of establishments making use of home workers who were found to have been underpaid and the number of home workers who were interviewed by the inspectorate separately for workers covered by the clothing manufacturing, the hat, cap and millinery and the retail bespoke tailoring wages councils.
§ Mr. TrippierThe information requested is given in the following tables.
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1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 Homeworkers interviewed 703 555 308 222 266 244 160 Hat, Cap and Millinery Wages Council Establishments where the pay records of homeworkers were examined 14 23 5 2 13 6 5 Establishments making use of the services of homeworkers who were found to have been underpaid — 2 2 — — — — Homeworkers interviewed 11 79 19 5 36 15 7 Retail Bespoke Tailoring Wages Council Establishments where the pay records of homeworkers were examined 68 7 4 1 12 16 6 Establishments making use of the services of homeworkers who were found to have been underpaid 1 1 — — 2 — 1 Homeworkers interviewed 39 11 4 7 13 8 4