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Mr. Pavitt
asked the Minister of Labour what estimate he has made of the effect of the Selective Employment Tax in terms of the percentage increase in wages costs borne by the retail destributive trades.
Mrs. Shirley Williams
It has been estimated that the effect of the Selective Employment Tax will be to add approximately 5 per cent.-6 per cent. to the wages costs borne by the distributive trades as a whole. It is not possible to make such an estimate in respect of the retail distributive trades alone.