§ 72. Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLEasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the increases which have been made in the remuneration of civil servants during each of the last five years and the aggregate cost per year of such increases?
§ Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCEAs the answer involves a table of figures I will, with the permission of the hon. Member, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following is the answer:
For particulars of the more important increases in the remuneration of individual classes of civil servants over the last five years I would refer the hon. Member to the Awards of the Industrial Court. Apart from these Awards, increases in remuneration would be mainly attributable to incremental progression on salary scales, but against the cost of such increases must be set off the general reduction of emoluments due to the fall in Civil Service cost-of-living bonus. The following table, which reflects the foregoing factors, shows the approximate average cost of salaries and wages per head of civil servants, both industrial and non-industrial, during each of the years in question:
| £ | |
| 1925–26 | 193.5 |
| 1926–27 | 192.8 |
| 1927–28 | 197.5 |
| 1928–29 | 193.6 |
| 1929–30 | 196.6 |