asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he has plans to seek to amend the Truck Acts to allow employers to insist on cashless pay.

As the then Secretary of State for Employment announced on 21 July 1983 at column 214, the Government propose in due course to invite Parliament to repeal the Truck Acts and associated legislation and to replace them with up-to-date provisions concerning deducations from wages.The method of payment of wages will then be a matter for agreement between the employer and employee.