§ Mr. Nigel GriffithsTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table in theOfficial Report showing the estimated number of establishments and workers covered by wages council agreements, in 1987, in each region in Scotland and in each of the four cities: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen; and if he will show in that table the number of inspections, by visit and by other methods, carried out by the Wages Inspectorate in each area, and the rate of compliance with wages councils' rates in 1987.
§ Mr. NichollsWages Inspectorate statistics are not compiled for areas smaller than the inspectorate's nine divisions, of which Scotland is one. Those items requested for which separate figures are compiled for Scotland were provided in the reply given to the hon. Member on 4 March 1988, at columns734–38.