HC Deb 07 December 1988 vol 143 c207W
Mr. Beith

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department why he has withdrawn the facility for allowing the voluntary deduction of Prison Officers Association subscriptions from members' pay.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The facility was suspended because the association, after due warning, has failed to take genuine steps to draw up and agree with prison service management a firm programme for ending national industrial action which has been taking place since 13 January 1988.