Unfair Dismissal

Part of Opposition Day – in the House of Commons at 10:55 pm on 15 May 1985.

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Photo of Mr John Evans Mr John Evans , St Helens North 10:55, 15 May 1985

Will the hon. Gentleman acknowledge that when the 1971 legislation was before the House, the then Secretary of State for Employment, now Lord Carr, categorically stated that the Tory Government intended to reduce the period from two years? The two-year period was the inception period. I wish that I had brought the reference with me, so that the hon. Gentleman could look it up in Hansard.