Employment Minister Pat McFadden has told fellow MPs the matter of blacklisting in the construction industry needs to be dealt with “diligently and speedily”. In a debate in the House of Commons last night Mr McFadden confirmed the Consulting Association, which has been found to have been keeping a blacklist of construction workers, will be prosecuted and contractors found to have been using the service would also be thoroughly investigated… [T]he Information Commissioner’s Office claimed dozens of the country’s biggest construction companies had been using confidential personal data to blacklist “trouble-makers”. Balfour Beatty, Costain, NG Bailey, Laing O’Rourke, Morgan Est, Miller Construction, Sir Robert McAlpine and Vinci are among the contractors embroiled in the scandal.