HC Deb 02 December 1997 vol 302 c204W
Mr. Chidgey

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if she will list, by regions defined by the boundaries of the regional government offices, the lowest hourly rate paid by her Department to(a) full-time employees, (b) part-time employees, (c) persons employed under personal contract and (d) persons employed by firms undertaking contracted-out services for central government offices, defining the job title in each case. [18111]

Mr. Field

The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is as follows:

Mr. Keith Bradley

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State had one meeting with an official from Wisconsin who was in this country for a Conference at which both were due to speak. There was no formal agenda. The official concerned described the various changes made to the welfare system in Wisconsin over the past several years, gave an informal assessment of their effect and described what she saw as the main lessons to be drawn about the process of implementing major change in this area.