HC Deb 14 July 1988 vol 137 cc317-8W
Dr. Marek

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps are being taken to improve staff relations, arbitration and joint consultation in the Civil Service; and what guidelines are being issued to Civil Service managers.

Mr. Brooke

Collective relations within the Civil Service continue under the long-established machinery of the national Whitley council, in the case of non-industrial civil servants, and the joint co-ordinating committee for Government industrial establishments, in the case of industrial civil servants. Under the Whitley machinery dialogue is continuing with the Council of Civil Service Unions on whether central guidance about consultation might be appropriate.