HL Deb 21 January 1976 vol 367 cc636-8WA
Lord HOUGHTON of SOWERBY

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether the cost of the Civil Service pay increase at 1st April 1975, which was given to this House by the Lord Privy Seal on 11th December was misleading, as reported by the Press.

The LORD PRIVY SEAL (Lord Shepherd)

No; the information I gave was correct. I said that civil servants received at 1st April 1975 an average increase equivalent to an annual rate of 26 per cent. The increases in greater detail for all the various groups concerned were as below.

ferring all the staff concerned from the old to the new scales in accordance with the assimilation terms applying to the settlements and the known distribution of staff through the scales. For the smaller grades whose pay is by prior agreement consequential upon the pay research re-results, this cost is calculated in accord - ance with the known relationship between each consequential grade and its pay research parent. I know of no more accurate way of costing such increases.

House adjourned at four minutes before eleven o'clock.