§ Mr. JOYNSON-HICKSasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he was aware that the salary of £500 per annum, rising to £700 per annum, for the senior Labour Adviser to the Home Office was personal to Mr. Shackleton; and whether, in any new appointment he might make, he would revert to the lower scale?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. McKenna)I am aware that the scale of salary on which Mr. Shackleton was placed was personal to himself. In the ordinary course, future holders of the appointment would receive the normal scale of salary assigned to the appointment, but I am not prepared to say that in special cases the normal scale might not be departed from.
§ Mr. JOYNSON-HICKSHaving regard to the undertaking given to the House by his predecessor, will the right hon. Gentleman say that no appointment at other than the normal salary shall be made without the sanction of the House?
§ Mr. McKENNAI have not before me the terms of the undertaking, but any undertaking that may have been given will, of course, be observed.