HC Deb 20 November 1990 vol 181 cc109-10W
Mr. Tony Lloyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what instructions have been issued to the Central Office of Industrial Tribunals or to the regional offices concerning restrictions on the use of part-time chairmen; and what measures have been instituted to identify the effects on case hearings of any such instructions.

Mr. Forth

I refer the hon. Member to the reply which I gave to the hon. Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair) on 19 November.