§ Mr. NellistTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if, pursuant to the reply to the honourable Member for Halifax (Mrs. Mahon)Official Report, 21 July, column 390, he will list that research work, known to his Department, which does not support the view that the removal of statutory minimum wage provisions can be expected to have beneficial effects on employment.
§ Mr. NichollsThere are two such studies
C. Craig, F. Wilkinson, G. Rubery and R. Tarling "Labour Market Structure, Industrial Organisation and Low Pay" Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge Research Paper No 54, 1982.D. Canning and R. Tarling, "A Report on the Department of Employment's Study, Wages Floors in the Clothing Industry 1950–1981, Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge, 1985.My Department does not necessarily agree that the evidence presented in these studies supports the conclusions drawn. In the latter case, a rebuttal of the authors' findings was published at the time.