§ 34. Mr. T. SMITHasked the Home Secretary how many prison officers of the subordinate ranks approximately received immediate increases of pay of amounts under 1s, per week each; and how many did not receive an immediate increase in connection with the recent consolidation of pay and bonus?
§ Sir J. SIMONI presume that what the hon. Member has in mind is not the consolidation of pay and bonus, which applied to Government servants generally, but the special improvements in the scales of pay of prison officers which came into operation on 1st January. In estimating the advantages resulting from these new scales account must be taken not only of the actual rates of pay but of the accelerated rate of increase, and any figures such as those for which the hon. Member asks would not only be laborious to prepare but would be wholly misleading.