asked the Minister of Labour (1) when the Licensed Residential Establishments and Licensed Restaurants Wages Board was first established; the names of the chairman and members of the Board; how many meetings have been held; and when the publication of the proposals is expected;

(2) when the Unlicensed Residential Establishments Wages Board was first established; the names of the chairman and members of the Board; how many meetings have been held; and when the publication of the proposals is expected;

(3) what action he proposes to take to expedite the issue of the proposals of the Licensed Residential Establishments and Licensed Restaurants Wages Board, also the Unlicensed Residential Establishments Wages Board, in view of the long period of time that these Boards have been established without publishing any details of their progress.

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.

Following are the names:

LICENSED RESIDENTIAL ESTABLISHMENT AND LICENSED RESTAURANT WAGES BOARD

Persons chosen as being independent persons:

• Lord Terrington, C.B.E. (Chairman.)
• Mr. A. Dalgleish (Deputy Chairman.)
• Miss Edith Hesling.

Persons chosen to represent employers:

• Mr. Stanley Victor Baines.
• Mr. Albert Edward Bush.
• Mr. John C. Clancy.
• Mr. J. R. Cooper.
• Mr. Vernon Elwes.
• Mr. Harold Alfred Hasleham.
• Mr. William A. Hofflin.
• Mr. Francis George Hole.
• Mrs. Catherine Lodge.
• Mr. Frank Douglas Nicholson.
• Mr. James Carruthers Nicholson.
• Mr. Ernest Vivan Rogers.
• Mr. G. S. Parsons.
• Mr. A. E. Simmons.
• Mr. John Walker, D.L., J.P.
• Mr. Leslie David Williams.

Persons chosen to represent workers:

• Mr. Robert M. Brierley.
• Mr. Tom Cochrane.
• Mr. J. P. Dixon.
• Mr. James B. Figgins.
• Mr. George B. Greensmith.
• Miss Florence M. Hancock, C.B.E.
• Mr. J. D. Hiscock.
• Mr. Arthur W. J. Lewis, M.P.
• Mr. Horace Moreton.
• Mr. Reginald V. Piper.
• Mr. Joseph Rink.
• Mr. Thomas Sharrock.
• Mr. Octave J. J. Veillard.
• Mr. James Edmund Walker.
• Mr. Daniel Wilson.

(One vacancy to be filled.)

UNLICENSED RESIDENTIAL ESTABLISHMENT WAGES BOARD

Persons chosen as being independent persons:

• Sir Harold Montague Barton, F.C.A. (Chairman.)
• Professor Harold Stewart Kirkaldy, M.A., LL.B. (Deputy Chairman.)
• Miss Eileen Younghusband, J.P.

Persons chosen to represent employers:

• Mr. Harry C. Brown.
• Mr. Albert Edward Bush.
• Mr. E. St. John Catchpool.
• Mr. John Clark.
• Mr. H. Adams Clarke.
• Miss Edith Nellie Cleaver.
• Mr. H. Donald Moffat.
• Mr. Joseph Parker.
• Miss Marion Reeves.
• Mr. Adam Scott, O.B.E.
• Mr. A. E. Simmons.
• Mr. Sydney Smith.
• Mr. Roy Snell.
• Mr. Joseph J. Taylor.
• Miss Winifred Webb.

Persons chosen to represent workers:

• Mrs. Florence Balsam.
• Mr. Jack Bayer.
• Mr. R. Cooper.
• Mr. Harry Walter Crane.
• Mr. James Blair Figgins.
• Mr. Reginald Gibbons,
• Miss Beatrice Annie Godwin.
• Miss Florence May Hancock, C.B.E.
• Miss Agnes Hilton.
• Mr. John Hindley.
• Mrs. Dorothy Florence Jackson.
• Mr. Arthur William John Lewis, M.P.
• Mr. Joseph Smedley.
• Mrs. Beatrice Walton.

(One vacancy to be filled.)