§ 87. Mr CAMPBELLasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether the Reorganisation Committee of the National Service Whitley Council have recommended a new scale of salaries for entrants to the new clerical grade of the Civil Service based upon minimum needs; and whether the official side of the Whitley Council refuse to negotiate with the staff side with a view to giving the existing staff the benefit of this new scale, although they have been assimilated to this new grade?
§ Mr. BALDWINA scale of salaries for the proposed new clerical class of the Civil Service has been sanctioned on the recommendation of the Reorganisation Committee of the National Whitley Council. As regards the second part of the question, the terms on which existing Civil servants should be embodied in the new clerical class have been the subject of prolonged discussion between the official and staff sides of the Reorganisation Committee. It has not, how-eever, been found possible to come to an agreement on the subject, and the question at issue has been referred by the staff side of the National Whitley Council to the Civil Service Arbitration Board.