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  Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Schedule 1 - Power to abolish: bodies and offices
  
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  @ MP voted aye not to give a minister the power to abolish the Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales.
  @ MP voted no to give a minister the power to abolish the Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted to give a minister the power to abolish the  Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales.
  
  
  The board was an independent statutory body which set minimum wage rates and other minimum employment terms and conditions for agricultural workers in England and Wales.[1] 
  
  MPs were considering the Public Bodies Bill[2]. The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 32, page 21, line 11, leave out
  :âAgricultural Wages Board for England and Walesâ.
  
  Had it not been rejected this amendment would have removed the âAgricultural Wages Board for England and Wales' from Schedule 1[3] to the Public Bodies Bill. Clause 1 of the Bill, in subclause 1 stated:
  
  :A Minister may by order abolish a body or office specified in Schedule 1.
  
  
  The Agricultural Wages Board (AWB) was set up in 1948 to provide a fair wage and skills structure for agricultural workers[4]. 
  
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  * [1] [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/82652/awb-consult-doc-20121016.pdf Consultation on the Future of the Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales, and Agricultural Wages Committees and Agricultural Dwelling House Advisory Committees in England, October 2012]
  * [2] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/publicbodieshl.html Parliament's webpage on the Public Bodies Bill]
  * [3] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2010-2012/0234/cbill_2010-20120234_en_4.htm#sch1 Schedule 1 to the Public Bodies Bill]
  * [4] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2013-04-24a.924.2#g924.3 Mary Creagh MP, (Wakefield, Labour), House of Commons, 25 October 2011]
  
  
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