asked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the latest representations he has had from the International Labour Organisation about the industrial position at Government communications headquarters.

The report of the committee of experts on the application of conventions and recom-mendations has now been published and will be considered at the meeting of the international labour conference in June in which the United Kingdom Government are participating. The committee observed that the Government had raised a number of complex legal issues. Its report did not find the Government in breach of convention 87.