Standing Commission On Pay Comparability

Mr. John Grant
asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the work on references and cases still to be completed by the Standing Commission on pay comparability; and when he expects to begin the review of the Commission's position.

Mr. Jim Lester
[pursuant to his reply, 26 November 1979]: Current references  to the Standing Commission are as follows: nurses and midwives; professions supplementary to medicine; university technicians; ambulance officers; municipal airport manual workers; British Waterways Board salaried staffs; primary and secondary school and further education teachers; some groups of local authority craftsmen; new towns staff; justices' clerks' assistants—outside inner London; and Scottish local authority chief officials. The Government continue to keep the Commission's work under review and have recently made further references, included in this list.