asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether proposals have been made by the Civil Service staff organisations to the Govern- ment with a view to the setting up of a new Civil Service Board of Arbitration; and, if so, what steps have been taken in this matter?

Representations have been made with this object by the Staff side of the Civil Service National Whitley Council, and my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer is receiving a deputation of that body to-day.