§ Mr. Peter BottomleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment, pursuant to the answer of 6 November,Official Report, column 432, what was the lowest rate of actual payment found by inspectors in 1991–92.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if she will place in the Library(a) the responses to the 1988 consultative paper on the future of wages councils and (b) representations, including notes of oral or telephone representations, received since 1988 on the future of wages councils which were taken into account in the drafting of the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill.
§ Mr. McLoughlinNo. We treat responses to consultation exercises, as with other representations, on the basis that they have been offered "in confidence".