1.   No minimum rate of descent planned.

2.   The agreed rates are only minimum rates.

3.   Under any new system, the Government has made plain that it will lay down the minimum rates of benefit.

4.   Work out the minimum rate of descent for this outbound leg.

5.   However, if the Wages Councils were abolished there would be no guarantee that a negotiated minimum rate would be applied.

6.   There is a place for minimum rates of pay.

7.   If there are no minimum rates of setting arrangements then standards will slip and conditions will deteriorate.

8.   That abolishes Wages Councils but denies the lowest paid British workers a minimum rate of pay which the other eleven member states provide.

9.   The speculative demand becomes virtually infinite at this minimum rate of interest.