§ 14. Mr. Woodburnasked the Postmaster-General whether his attention has been called to the decision of the Treasury that an officer on pension of the service re-employed in his old grade will be paid the current minimum if his former salary was less than that minimum; and whether he will take steps to implement this decision in the case of re-employed Edinburgh postal servants formerly on pension who are at present being paid 5s. 6d. below the current minimum for their grade?
§ The Postmaster-General (Major Tryon)The hon. Member is under some misapprehension. The figure of 5s. 6d. which he quotes is the difference between the present pay of certain re-employed pensioners who are getting their former maximum of 88s. 6d., and the current maximum for their grade of 94s. The pensioners in question are receiving 30s. 6d. more, and not 5s. 6d. less, than the current minimum for their grade.
§ Mr. WoodburnIs the right hon. and gallant Gentleman aware that the individuals in question are under no misapprehension and that they consider they are getting 5s. 6d. less than people doing the same work alongside them?
§ Major TryonI am sure that they are not under any misapprehension. The hon. Gentleman is wrong in saying that we are not implementing the decision of the Treasury. The difficulty about answering his Question is that he unfortunately used the word "minimum" while the word appropriate to his argument and the context was "maximum"—which is different.