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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.
  
  MPs were considering the Public Bodies Bill[1]. 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 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[3].
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/publicbodieshl.html Parliament's webpage on the Public Bodies Bill]
  * [2] [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]
  * [3] [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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