Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 30 Ionawr 1947.
The Licensed Residential Establishment and Licensed Restaurant Wages Board was constituted on 14th December, 1945, and the Unlicensed Residential Establishment Wages Board on 8th July, 1946. The first of these Boards has 35 members, and the second 33, and I am circulating their names in the OFFICIAL REPORT. The boards are independent bodies, and I am not in a position to say how frequently they meet as boards or as committees, or when they will be able to publish proposals. I am satisfied, however, that they fully appreciate the importance of producing as expeditiously as possible proposals for creating a wage structure governing the terms and conditions of employment in the branches of the catering industry with which they are concerned.
I am in course of consultation with the chairmen of all statutory wages councils and boards for which I am responsible, including these boards, with a view to seeing whether the machinery can be speeded up consistently with the proper discharge of their duties, but I must point out that these boards have a very complicated task to perform in formulating a wages structure capable of application and enforcement throughout the industry.