No, I will finish. We know that when we introduced a similar provision in the civil service, we found that some organisations were acting perfectly responsibly and others were allowing an abuse of the system, hence we introduced a cap in the civil service. That has saved the taxpayer money and has not in any way undermined the proper fulfilment of responsibilities by trade union representatives. I shall now make some progress—
Trade Union Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Nick Boles
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 27 April 2016.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Trade Union Bill.
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