§ Mr. Peter BottomleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment, further to her answer of 9 February,Official Report, column 590, what representations she received, and on what dates, that employers should be required to seek renewed consent to check-off deductions from their employees each year.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythRepresentations to Government are automatically treated as confidential. The Institute of Directors publicly supported annual renewal of consent to check-off deductions in its response of 23 October 1991 to the Green Paper "Industrial Relations in the 1990s". As a result of that consultation exercise, our proposal was modified and the period of reaffirmation was increased to three years.