Stipends and Pensions

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Church Commissioners – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 31 October 1988.

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Photo of Dennis Skinner Dennis Skinner Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee, Party Chair, Labour Party 12:00, 31 October 1988

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that earlier this year at the Union of Democratic Mineworkers annual conference at Weymouth it was reported that some churchmen, who said that their stipends were too low, had joined the bosses' union—the UDM? At that conference, there were four clergymen and a rabbi. Led by one from the old ASTMS, they said that they were looking for industrial action, but Roy Lynk said, "We are not having any of that here." What other advice has the right hon. Gentleman?